Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act III: Scene 1

"Hic ibat Simois; hic est Sigeia tellus; / Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis" (28–29) "Here flowed the river Simois; here is the Sigeian land; here stood the lofty palace of old Priam" (Ovid).

conster (30) construe.

Pedascule (49) a word of contempt coined by Hortensio based on the Latin "pedasculus," or "little pedant."

Aeacides (51) descendant of Aeacus, King of Aegina and grandfather of Ajax.

gamut (66) any complete musical scale, especially the major scale.

nice (79) ignorant; foolish.

stale (89) decoy, bait.

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