Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Eumaeus/599

thumb|600px|center|page=602 Annotations pro rata5(Latin) in proportion; in accordance with a fair and proportionate calculation. This is another late Latin phrase which has become naturalized in the English language.Online Etymology Dictionary. The narrator of this episode (Bloom?) consistently italicizes such expressions. Ubi patria ... vita bene5(Latin) Where my country [is] ... life [is] well. Bloom is perhaps misremembering the Latin proverb: Ubi bene, ibi patria (Where [I am] happy, there [is my] homeland).Gifford (1988) 550.Thornton (1968) 447. Or he may be misremembering a quotation from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Patria est ubicumque est bene (My homeland is wherever I am happy).Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5:37:108. Cicero quotes this line from Teucer (fragment 291), a lost play by the Roman tragedian Marcus Pacuvius. Alma Mater5(Latin) Nourishing Mother. Since the 18th century the expression Alma Mater has been used in English to refer to one's school or university. Bloom's alma mater is the High School (069.13), as he never attended university (435.20 ff. and 635.15 ff.). References Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesPreceding Page | Page Index | Next Page