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76

Priapus

Per medios ibit pueros mediasque puellas
   mentula, barbatis non nisi summa petet.

Right through the middle of lads and of lasses a passage shall pierce
This yard, yet shall it touch bearded ones only aloft.

Through the middles of lads and girls will my mentule make its way; those bearded 'twill not attack save at the height.

[1. The courtesan's coynte being jocosely termed an altar.]


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