Priapus

How To Use Priapus In A Sentence

• Their chief was called Silenus, a minor deity associated like Hermes and Priapus with fertility. Pan and Satyrs
• Her particular mix goes beyond the vast documentation of Williams's life and work and includes the art films of Ryan Trecartin and Warhol collaborator Paul Morrissey , as well as Chinese Opera, porn, travel to New Orleans and the Greek fertility God, Priapus, whose iconic feature was an oversize, and permanent, erection. Exploring Tennessee Williams
• Scouts reported to Alexander that the citizens of Priapus were willing to surrender the town to him, allowing the grateful king his first opportunity to liberate a Greek city, however insignificant it might be. Alexander the Great
• Kakutani on A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years by John Richardson: "As John Richardson reminds us in the third installment of his magisterial and definitive biography, Picasso not only worshiped the gods Dionysius, Priapus and Mithra (the god of light and wisdom), but also regarded himself as their confrère — an artist so prodigally talented, so daring and so virtuosic that he could reinvent the universe. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
• Life of Camillus, ch. 37, note.] [Footnote 364: Artemis was so called from a town Priapus, which is on the south coast of the Propontis, and is placed in the maps a little west of the outlet of the Granikus. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
• Greek gods like Priapus are known for nothing else but their sexual and procreative prowess.
• Priapus ... prendam te tamen ', but it seems to be the meaning required at Lucretius II 532-35' nam _quod_ rara uides magis esse animalia quaedam/fecundamque minus naturam cernis in illis,/at regione locoque alio terrisque remotis/multa licet genere esse in eo numerumque repleri '. The Last Poems of Ovid
• But I am not so much in pain for a remedy, as that a greater anguish strikes me to the heart, and will undoubtedly make an end of me, for fear in one of your youthful frolicks, you should disclose what you saw in Priapus's chappel, and utter the counsels of the gods among the people. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
• Priapus appear'd to me, and told me, he had lately brought into my ship Encolpius that I sought for ": Tryphœna was startl'd," And you'd swear we slept together, "reply'd she," for methoughts the image of Neptune having struck his trident thrice against the Bajœ, told me that in Lycas 'ship I shou'd meet my Gito. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
• Priapus-god to whom the Vestal Virgins of Rome, professed tribades, sacrificed, also the neck-charm in phallus-shape. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night