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Vicinus prope dives est, negligensque Priapus.
Inde sumite: semita haec deinde vos feret ipsa.
XVIIII.
To Priapus.
This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turf-builded cottage,
Roofed with its osier-twigs and thatched with its bundles of sedges;
I from the dried oak hewn and fashioned with rustical hatchet,
Guarding them year by year while more are they evermore thriving.
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