Lexicographical Neighbors of Priapuses
Literary usage of Priapuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church by Emanuel Swedenborg (1873)
"Moreover, adulterers may be compared with covenant-breakers, who violate
engagements ; and also with the satyrs and priapuses of the ancients, who wandered ..."
2. The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New by Emanuel Swedenborg, Taylor Gilman Worcester (1875)
"The lions, panthers, tigers and wolves were appearances of the lusts with those
who seemed like satyrs and priapuses. Those without a covering about me ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Apollo, Bion, wept thy sudden fate; The Satyrs too, and the priapuses Dark-veiled,
and for that song of thine the Pans Groaned; and the fountain-nymphs ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"... much the same relation to the present as the Jupiter Olympius of Phidias bears
to the priapuses of ..."
5. A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla by Leigh Hunt (1848)
"Apollo, Bion, wept thy sudden fate: The Satyrs too, and the priapuses Dark-veiled,
and for that song of thine the Pans, Groan'd ; and the fountain-nymphs ..."
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