Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Ithaca/665
Annotations edit
Rus in Urbe (Latin) The Countryside in the City.[1] The phrase, commonly used to indicate an extensive garden attached to a city residence, first occurs in the twelfth book of Martial's epigrams.[2]
References edit
- ↑ Gifford (1988) 590.
Thornton (1968) 476. - ↑ Martial, Epigrams 12:57:21 and Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammaton Libri XII 12:57:21.