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* '''speaking his philippic''' → a ''philippic'' is a discourse full of invective, after the three Philippics of the Athenian orator Demosthenes against Philip of Macedon * '''sneaking his filly''' * '''taking his filly''' * '''Philippi:''' town in Macedonia → the Battle of Philippi, 42 BC ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130491&q1=Philippi A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] * '''Philip''' → the Greek name means ''horse-loving'' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160320&q1=Philip Third Census of Finnegans Wake] * '''Philip of Macedon:''' the father of Alexander the Great ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160321&q1=Philip Third Census of Finnegans Wake] * '''This is me Belchum sneaking his phillippy out of his most Awful...''' → Joyce's first-draft of this passage read: "This is the Belchiam taking a phillipy out of his bottle of Tiltsiter." It is possible that Joyce's final version, corrupted in transmission when one line was inadvertently omitted, should read: "This is me Belchum sneaking his phillippy out of his most toocisive bottle of Tiltsiter. This is the libel on the battle. Awful..." ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050063&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake] ** '''toocisive bottle:''' decisive battle ** '''Tiltsiter:''' Tilsiter, a Swiss-Prussian cheese, though '''S''''s Tilsiter is obviously an alcoholic drink like Pilsener lager ** '''libel on the battle:''' label on the bottle (it's a bottle of Guinness, after all!) * '''fill-lip'''

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