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genus omne5(Latin) all that kind.Gifford (1988) 562. The usual form of this phrase is: et hoc genus omne (and all this sort of thing). The narrator (Bloom?) is using the Latin phrase as a simple substantive, as though it were a synonym for ilk. This unusual practice is typical of his affected style in this episode.
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