Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Circe/465

Annotations
virgo intacta   (Latin) undefiled virgin. This is the medical term for a girl or woman whose hymen is unbroken, which generally indicates that she has never had sexual intercourse.

fetor judaicus   (Latin) Jewish stench. It is said that the myth that Jews emit a fetid stink derives from an error (possibly deliberate) of a medieval copyist, who mistranscribed a passage by Ammianus Marcellinus, replacing Judaeorum petentium (of the attacking Jews) with Judaeorum fetentium (of the ill-smelling Jews).