Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Scylla and Charybdis/198
Annotations
[edit | edit source]inquit Eglintonus Chronolologos (Latin, Greek) said Eglinton the Chronologist.[1] Chronolologos (chronologist) is artificial Greek.
nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita (Italian) in the middle of the journey of our life.[2] 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