All 5 Uses of
breach
in
The Aeneid
- A spacious breach is made; the town lies bare; Some hoisting-levers, some the wheels prepare And fasten to the horse's feet; the rest With cables haul along th' unwieldly beast.†
Book 2 *breach = break or penetrate
- A mighty breach is made: the rooms conceal'd Appear, and all the palace is reveal'd; The halls of audience, and of public state, And where the lonely queen in secret sate.†
Book 2
- The pit resounds with shrieks; a war succeeds, For breach of public faith, and unexampled deeds.†
Book 8
- Advancing to the front, the hero stands, And, stretching out to heav'n his pious hands, Attests the gods, asserts his innocence, Upbraids with breach of faith th' Ausonian prince; Declares the royal honor doubly stain'd, And twice the rites of holy peace profan'd.†
Book 12
- 'T is just that I should vindicate alone The broken truce, or for the breach atone.†
Book 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.