Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Scylla and Charybdis/198
Annotations
[edit | edit source]Hooks and Eyes for Believers’ Breeches A sermon by the influential preacher Charles Spurgeon[1]
inquit Eglintonus Chronolologos (Latin, Greek) said Eglinton the Chronologist.[2] Chronolologos (chronologist) is artificial Greek.
nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita (Italian) in the middle of the journey of our life.[3] This is the opening line of Dante's Inferno. Dante was thirty-five in 1300, the year in which the Divine Comedy is set. Seventy years is the traditional lifespan allotted to mankind (Psalms 90:10).
From hour to hour it rots and rots Quote taken from As You Like It
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ https://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/fsl/vf.htm
- ↑ Gifford (1988) 239. Gifford Latinizes Chronolologos by altering it to Chronolologus.
- ↑ Gifford (1988) 240.
Thornton (1968) 203.