Sneaking his phillippy

• 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
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Philip → the Greek name means horse-loving
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Philip of Macedon: the father of Alexander the Great
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake