Priam Olim

• Priam: the king of Troy during the Trojan War
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• s Brian O'Linn: Irish song with innumerable verses about a man who always sees the bright side of a difficult situation → the Four Old Men's four comments in this paragraph are in the rhythm of Brian O'Linn

• L prius: before

• L olim: once

• Priapus: a Greek god of fertility whose attribute was the phallus → stiff
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake