About the text

The text was copied from Petronii Saturae et Liber Priapeorum, Franciscus Buecheler, ed. (Berlin, 1911). I also took some readings from Priapea: Poems for a Phallic God, W.H. Parker, ed. and transl.(London ,1988). Both of these books are equipped with a critical apparatus, and I took a few readings from them as well.


Verse Buecheler Edition Change Source
10.3 nec non Parker
12.1 iunior haud iunior crit. app.
16.7 qualiacunque taliacumque Parker
19.3 extis aptius exstans altius Parker
19.5 posset possit Parker
25.1 ut recisum est est recisum Parker
32.7 usque putris ut putrisque Parker
32.13 insulariusque insularis aeque et Parker
36.5 fronte crinitos Arcades vides Faunos in fronte cornua Arcados vides Fauni crit. app.
42.2 cero facta cera facili Parker
43.4 viribus usibus Parker
45.7 quam quod crit. app.
46.6 manes hic licet mallem scilicet Parker
50.6 conparibus cum paribus Parker
52.9 partem partes Parker
57.6 desim desit Parker
63.1 mihi, quod hic fixi quod hic ut fiximus semel crit. app.
63.9 terribilem fuste fuste de rudi vilem crit. app.
63.17 figuras figuris Parker
65.1 morsit mersit Parker
66.3 a mirum nimirum Parker
68.11 nata nota Parker
75 missing mortales tibi Lampsacum dicarunt Parker
76.1 sim sum Parker
80.1 at non bene non stat bene Parker