Smirking, he picks up the phone again, and dials a number — tap! tap! tap! “Hello, again,” he says, amused. “Of course, what I meant to say was ‘Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas.’ Rookie mistake! Yeah! I know, right?!”
Another rookie mistake: it's divum, not divom.
EDIT: Turns out that it wasn't wrong, just a strange form.
How strange, I thought it was a printing/scanning error. But apparently not.
The vocative singular of deus does not occur in classic Latin, but is said to have been dee; deus (like the nominative) occurs in the Vulgate. For the genitive plural, dīvum or dīvom, dīvus divine) is often used. src
Another rookie mistake: it's divum, not divom.
EDIT: Turns out that it wasn't wrong, just a strange form.
"Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas" is a direct quote from Titus Lucretius Carus's De rerum natura.
How strange, I thought it was a printing/scanning error. But apparently not.
Buttigieg wins again!
HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT.