PRIAPEIA  , a collection of poems (about eighty in number) in various metres on the subject of

Priapus . It was compiled from literary works and inscriptions on images of the god by an unknown editor, who composed the introductory epigram . From their style and versification it is evident that the poems belong to the best period of Latin literature . Some, however, may be interpolations of a later period . They will be found in F . Biicheler's Petronius (1904), L . Muller's Catullus (187o), and E . Bahrens, Poetae latini minores, i . (1879) .