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Endnote 337 — A Latin blunder, and Hamlet

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Flags a botched Latin self-defense term (for "se defendendo") as either a muddled legalism, a post-Freudian slip, or — least likely — a very oblique jab at Gately from a Ewell intimate with the graveyard scene of Hamlet (V.i).

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