Note 83 — FIRST SECTION.
Reading edition
I. ch. p. 528.; perhaps following Posidonius, “De heroibus et daemonibus,” (Of heroes and demigods)? comp. p. 391. But Servius on Virgil, Georgics IV. 111., also has this legend. Suidas, under the word πρίαπος. Scioppius, who likewise relates it in his edition of the Priapeia, adds: fuit autem morbus ille quem hodie Gallicum vocamus, (but it was the disease which we nowadays call the French disease—Siphylis).