Helviticus

• Helvetii: Gallic tribe whose migration from Helvetia (Switzerland) precipitated Caesar's Gallic War → the Judeans were also conquered by Rome (see joshuan judges)

• Leviticus: the third book of the Old Testament

• Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-71): French hedonist and freethinker; his principal work, De l’esprit, was condemned and publicly burned in 1759
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Helveticus: (Latin) Swiss → Ulysses was largely written in Switzerland → Issy, who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of HCE's tavern, is frequently associated with Rhaeto-Romanic terms, as though her room under the tavern's pitched roof is in the Swiss Alps

• Hevelius: Polish astronomer, selenographer

• Helvetic: Swiss protestant subscribing to one of two Helvetic confessions of faith. "...before Helviticus committed deuteronomy..." - "Deuteronomy" = lit. "Second Law"