[88] Similarly we read in the distich _Antipater_, Antholog. Graec. bk. II. Tit. 5. No. 3.:
_Ἑστηκὸς_ τὸ Κίμωνος ἰδὼν _πέος_, εἶφ’ ὁ Πρίηπος, Οἴμοι, ὑπὸ θνητοῦ λείπομαι ἀθάνατος.
(When Priapus saw Cimon’s penis standing stiff, he said, “Woe’s me!” I am thrown in the shade by a mortal, immortal though I be).
[89] In the Codex Coburgensis the Priapeia begin with the following words: P. Virgilii Maronis Mantuani poetae clarissimi Priapi carmen incipit feliciter, (the Song of Priapus by Publius Virgilius Maro, of Mantua, the renowned poet, begins happily). Comp. _Bruckhusius_ Notes to Tibullus bk. IV. Eleg. 14. At any rate the majority of the poems belong to the golden age of Roman literature. For readers of the old poets it may perhaps not be out of place here to remark that _Priapus_ as _Cultor Hortorum_ (Patron of Gardens) is not unfrequently mentioned with an equivocal meaning, if indeed he has not come into the garden entirely through misunderstanding. So we read in Priapeia, Ode 4.,
Quod metis hortus habet, sumas impune licebit; Si dederis nobis, quod tuus hortus habet,
(What my garden has thou mayest take at will, if only thou give to us what thine possesses) and in the “Anechomenos” of _Apuleius_.
(Let them plant the thyrsus (Bacchic staff) in the garden-plat of Cupid). Similarly _Lucretius_, Bk. IV. 1100., says, ut muliebria conserat arva, (to sow the woman’s seed-fields), and _Virgil_, Georgics III. 136., speaks of, genitali arvo, (the seed-field of generation). Possibly in this direction may be found a better interpretation of the, irriguo nihil est elutius horto, (There is nought more insipid than a new-watered garden), of _Horace_, Satires Bk. II. 4. 16. The Greeks used in the same way their word κῆπος (garden), e. g. _Diogenes Laertius_, II. 12, and _Hesychius_ explains it by τὸ ἐφήβιον γυναικεῖον (the female organ of puberty). Similarly in _Aristophanes_ καλὸν ἔχουσα τὸ πεδίον, (having the plain beautiful). The Koran also says, Thy Wife is thy field!
[90] “Apologie pour Herodote,” (Defence of Herodotus), II., 253.
[92] _Lucian_, De Dea Syra, § 28., relates that at Hieropolis there was a Phallus 180 or 1800 feet in size.
[93] _Creuzer_, Symbolik, Bk. II. p. 85.—_de Wette_, Archäologie, § 233 k.—_Wiener_, Biblisches Realwörterbuch. 2nd. ed. Leipzig 1833., Vol. I. p. 139. Article, _Baal_; and p. 260. Article, _Chamos_.