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Dear Experts,
i am soon to be married and would dearly love the words of Shakespeare's HenryV negraved on our rings. Please translate:

"Once more unto the breach" into latin.

I would be most appreciative :D

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Jodie wrote:Dear Experts,
i am soon to be married and would dearly love the words of Shakespeare's HenryV negraved on our rings. Please translate:

"Once more unto the breach" into latin.

I would be most appreciative :D

Cheers,
jodie
I think I have understood, but as usual, I will preferably await for someone to translate it me in french, so that I might translate, afresh, into latin.

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Ben je dirais que ça veut dire "une fois de plus en faute", ou un truc du genre, mais ça fait quand même très bizarre pour une bague de mariage :-?
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Isn't it like in French "sur la brèche" = ready to attack / to act ?
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Well, I can't find this meaning for breach in my dictionary... But if I look at brèche, it says "he's still bevearing away" or "hard at it" for "il est toujours sur la brèche". But then again we're talking about Shakespeare's English, so I don't know...
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Well maybe Jodie herself could explain the exact meaning?
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Beaumont wrote:Well maybe Jodie herself could explain the exact meaning?
And/or give us the location of that sentence in Shakespeare's drama ?
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Maïwenn wrote:Well, I can't find this meaning for breach in my dictionary...
Yes, I'm not sure the French meaning of "ready" is there, but there is certainly a meaning breach = brèche (an opening in a wall to attack what is behind), and unto is a old word for "to", hence: "(going) to the opening in the wall to attack" -> en première ligne prêt à l'action?
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:loljump: grande phrase de Startrek
http://www.jimmy.fr/series/startrek_dee ... 8&saison=7
ils ont traduit l'épisode "de retour au combat"...
pour Sisyphe,
”Once more unto the breach" traduit par "Retournons à la brèche”, Henry V, Acte III, scène 1
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SISYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPHE! Au latin maintenant!!!
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ann wrote:SISYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPHE! Au latin maintenant!!!
:hello: Yes, yes, wait a minute, I do come in.

"Breach" on a city wall, in latin, it is "ruina". But the word means also "ruin" - that is quite problematical : "rursum ad ruinam" could be understood like "once more unto the ruin". For a wedding, it is a little bit embarrassing, is not it ? :-? .

We could also translate it "rursum ad proelium" (once more unto the battle).

:roll: I go on thinking about...
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