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  • by: (Old Norse) town
  • Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus: originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (161–192 A.D.) (Shem), the son of Marcus Aurelius (HCE), was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 A.D. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought to a close the era of the "five good emperors". He had a twin brother, Antoninus (Shaun), who died when he was about four years old, and a sister Lucilla (Issy) who was implicated in plots to overthrow him
  • commodious: conveniently spacious; adapted to wants. (The new Danis Rose edition replaces 'commodius' with 'commodious'.)
  • commodus: (Latin) pleasant
  • commedia: (Italian) comedy → Dante's Commedia (the "Divine Comedy")
  • κωμωδια (kōmōdia): (Greek) comedy
  • comme odieux: (French) as odious; like odious
  • commode: an armchair containing a concealed chamber pot under the seat → the 6th of 7 elements in a circuit of HCE's bedroom
    • commode: a close-stool or cucking-stool; a toilet;
    • Ulysses 063.14-15: "stubbing his [Bloom's] toes against the broken commode"
    • chamber-pot → jordan → Giordano Bruno
  • Commodius Vicus → spacious village → Dublin
  • κωμη (kōmē): (Greek) village → vicus
  • vicus: (Latin) village; street; quarter (of a city)
    • Song of Solomon 3:2: "surgam et circuibo civitatem per vicos et plateas quaeram quem diligit anima mea quaesivi illum et non inveni - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."[1]
  • commodious vicus → CV? → curriculum vitae, the course of one's life
  • vicis: (Latin) fortune; change of fortune or conditions; vicissitude; duty, function, place
  • vicus of recirculation → vicious cycle
  • vicus of recirculation → hydrological cycle: the water of Dublin Bay is evaporated, becomes a cloud over Howth, which is blown inland; rain falls in the Dublin Mountains; the water is collected by the Liffey, which flows through the city, cleansing it (Giambattista means "John the Baptist") and carrying off its filth; the river discharges its contents into the Bay, and the cycle continues.
  • circulation: the circulatory or cardiovascular system, the system of organs which circulates blood around the body of most animals → blood vessels, consisting of arteries, capillaries and veins, are like rivers in the body
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