Belly the First

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  • King Billy: popular name in Ireland for William III (William of Orange)
  • William I: William the Conqueror
  • belly: Aesop’s Fables, “The Belly and the Members”
    • Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 2: Menenius Agrippa pacified a plebeian revolt by quoting this fable → Giambattista Vico alludes to this episode (The New science ¶ 424)