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Priapus

also: Priapus

Rustic fertility god marked by a gross phallic image; Caligula's use of his name as a watchword was a coarse jibe at the tribune Chaerea's supposed effeminacy.

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On the Firmness of the Wise Man philosophy · 1 mention

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