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: 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

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