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* '''''L'' Helviticus''': Swiss → ''[[Ulysses]]'' was largely written in Switzerland → [[Issy]], who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of [[HCE|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
 
* '''''L'' Helviticus''': Swiss → ''[[Ulysses]]'' was largely written in Switzerland → [[Issy]], who sleeps in the dormer room at the top of [[HCE|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
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* '''Hevelius''': polish astronomer, selenographer

Revision as of 07:18, 24 September 2006

  • 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
  • Hevelius: polish astronomer, selenographer