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*Pongo da Banza,609.33,35. Pontifex—see Pointefox. 
Pooley, Edward— 19th-century cricketer. 
584.12. 
Poor Old Woman on Sham Van Vocht— poetically Ireland. 13.25—26;
48.15; 
54.4. 
Pope, Alexander (1688—1744)—English poet. See Belinda, Curll.
133.20; 151.15; 448.17; 466.11. 
Pope, John (1822—95)—Union general who lost the 2d battle of
Bull Rum. See Grant. 78.28 (his); 84.6. 
Popeye—of "Thimble Theatre" (268.15— 16), American comic strip
(see Olive 
Oyl). Like Jehovah and Shakespeare 
(q.q.v.) he said, "I yam what I yam" 
(604.23). Popeye is a character in Faulkner's Sanctuary. 13.30; 189.10. 
Popofetts, Allobosha—Alesha Popovich, a hero of the Kiev epic cycle,
Mr Sknabamek says. 106.23—24. 
Poppaea—wife of Nero (q.v.). 572.36. 
Poppagenua—Papageno and Papagena are low comedy in the Magic Flute.

513.20. 
Popper, Amalia—pupil of Joyce's in Trieste who Giacomo Joyce allegedly
describes. I think the attribution not proven. 370.3. 
Population Peg—see Margaret San gen, Peg. 436.10. 
Porphyry (233—304)—Greek Neoplatomist. ?100.l7; 264.n. 3. 
Porsena, Lans—king of Clusium, who swore by the mime gods to destroy
Rome, but was prevented by Horatius (q.v.) at the bridge (see Macaulay).
John Joyce (q.v.) was quoted in, and on the book jacket of, Lars Porsena;
or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language, by Robert Graves (1927)—see
Letters, III, 250. 83.7—8; 84.15. 
Porson, Richard (1759—1808)—English classical scholar. 18.22.

Porteleau—see Sin John Gray. 553.13—14. 
*porter_HCE (q.v.) is so called because as Tim Finnegan (q.v.) he carries
a hod, and because Finnegan's corpse has "a barrel of porter" at its head."
(See Gongias, Guinness; note Shaun-as-a-barrel in III, i,ii.) A good deal
is made of HCE as a publican who sells porter, and as a porter or doorkeeper
(see Janus) or tiler (see Tailor) in a Masonic lodge. Perhaps the drunken
porter of Macbeth (q.v.) comes into it, too. Some smattering of 
porters follows. Others may be found in 
the Concordance. 16.4; 21.18—19; 22.6, 
29—30; 23.10; 69.26; 72.3; 78.21; 89.16; 
91.15; 104.30; 106.32; 122.10; 135.7; 
136.4; 138.32; 186.35—36; 187.16,17; 
204.9; 257.27 (in lOOletterwond); 260.6; 
276.left margin; 371.1; 372.4,9; 405.23; 
406.2,10; 510.24; 511.19; 548.12; 
560.8,22,24,26, 31—32; 561.3; 563.23; 
570.15,19,20; 609.33; 624.15. 
*porterscout and Dona, 388.15. Portia—heroine of The Merchant of Venice.

Note that an argument of Justice and 
Mercy (see Justius and Mencius) follows. 
186.36. 
*portlund, "Mike"—Portland is a Dublin street, named for an 18th-century
viceroy. 602.17. 
Poseidon—Greek sea-god. The reference here is to Poseidon and Apollo
(q.v.) 
building the walls of Troy. See Neptune, Triton, Lir, Mamanaan. + 80.28—29—
with Posidonius (q.v.; see also O'Flaherty). 
Posidonius (b. 135 B.c.)—Stoic philosopher. +80.28—29—with
Poseidon (q.v.). 
Possum—see T. S. Eliot. 
Post, Postmam—Shaun (q.v.). See Pen, Shem and Shaun. 
Posthumus Leonatus—Imogen's (q.v.) husband in Cymbehine (q.v.). 316.34;
377.9; 422.14; 563.4—5; +607.9—with Esau (q.v.). 
Postvorta—Latim goddess of childbirth. + 150.7—with Post and
Wyndham Lewis's (q.q.v.) Vortex paintings. 
Potemkin(1739—91)—Russian statesman, lover of Catherine the Great
(q.v.). The following references may include Patrick, Tom, or Pat Tomkin.
290.n. 7; 333.4. Czech podomek, "man-semvant." 
Potiphar's wife—tempted Joseph (q.v.) and falsely accused him (Genesis,
39). 
193.20. 
Potollomuck Sotyn—see Ptolemy Soter. 
254.22—23. 
*Pott, Miss Butys—Miss Beauty Spot? Issy's (q.v.) stage name in "The
Mime." 
220.7. 
Potter, Mm, of Texas—title, hero of a novel by Archibald Clavering
Gunters. +274.n. 3—with St Peter (q.v.). 
Potter the Grave—see Peter the Great. 
134.6—7. 
Potts Fracture—bone fracture, named for 18th-century Dr Potts. 73.8.