单词 | Priapean |
释义 | Priapean, a.|praɪəˈpiːən| Also -æan. [ad. F. priapéen, f. L. Priāpēi-us (a. Gr. Πριάπει-ος adj., f. Πρίᾱπος Priapus) + -en, -an.] 1. Priapic.
a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxvii. 224 The Priapæan Prowess of..Hercules. 1849Layard Nineveh & Rem. i. v. I. 128 A broken..vase, on which were represented two Priapean human figures. 2. Anc. Pros. Name of a logaœdic metre consisting of a catalectic Glyconic and a Pherecratean, associated with poems to Priapus. It was used by Anacreon, also by Catullus (xvii), and by the writer of the poem to Priapus in the Appendix Vergiliana, ‘Hunc ego o iuvenes locum villulamque palustrem’. See R. Ellis Comment. on Catullus, pp. xliii, 62,503; Ramsay Prosody 214; Gildersleeve Lat. Gram. 805. |

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