Temp untamed will hist for no man

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Phrase: time and tide will wait for no man. 'Tide' is an archaic word equivalent to time.

Temp: Latin 'time'

Hist: history (derived from Greek 'witness')

'no man' is a reference to Homer's Odyssey and thereby Bloom. Ulysses is alluded to several times over the next few pages.