Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Aeolus/138
Annotations
editFuit Ilium! (Latin) Troy has been![1] The quotation is from Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid 2:325:
...: We Trojans are no more, Ilium is no more, nor the great |
...: fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium et ingens |
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
edit- ↑ Gifford (1988) 150.
Thornton (1968) 126. - ↑ Aeneid
H. R. Fairclough's Translation - ↑ Aeneid 3:104 ff.