Nam si vel minimos manu rapaci
Hoc de palmite laeseris racemos:
Nascetur, licet hoc velis negare,
Inserta tibi ficus a cupresso.
(Priapus on Himself.—I am not hewn of fragile elm, nor is my pillar that stands bent back with penis stiffly erect of any chance wood, but born of the living cypress.—Beware this image, thief, whoe’er thou art; for should you damage with plundering hand the tiniest clusters of this stem, there shall grow a fig, deny it if you will, of cypress-wood inserted up your fundament.)
De Labieno[272].
Ut pueros emeret Labienus, vendidit hortos,
Nil nisi ficetum nunc Labienus habet.
(On Labienus.—To buy boys Labienus sold his gardens; nought but a fig-garden does Labienus now possess.)
Ad Caecilianum[273].