Municipal sin

• original sin → continuing the allusions to Genesis which occur throughout this chapter

• municipal: relating to a city → Phoenix Park, the site of HCE's crime, is Dublin's principal municipal park (and arguably the largest municipal park in the world in proportion to its host city), therefore HCE's crime is a municipal sin

• municipal: this paragraph corresponds to Vico's third age, the democratic age of people and municipalities

• municipal: shared (e.g. municipal space) → the shared sin of each and every man, HCE