Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Aeolus/138

Annotations

Fuit Ilium! (Latin) Troy has been!^[1] The quotation is from Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid 2:325:

*Aeneid* 2:325-326^[2]
...: We Trojans are no more, Ilium is no more, nor the great Glory of the Teucrians;	...: fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium et ingens Gloria Teucrorum;

Ilium is a Latinized form of Ilion (Ἴλιον), another name for the legendary city of Troy, whence the title of Homer's Iliad. The Trojans were sometimes known as Teucri (Teucrians) after Teucer, earliest ancestor of the Trojans.^[3]

References

↑ Gifford (1988) 150.
Thornton (1968) 126.
↑ Aeneid
H. R. Fairclough's Translation
↑ Aeneid 3:104 ff.

Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses
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[1] Gifford (1988) 150.
Thornton (1968) 126.

[2] Aeneid
H. R. Fairclough's Translation

[3] Aeneid 3:104 ff.

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