Both Uses of
breach
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- Then Sarpedon seized the battlement in his strong hands, and tugged at it till it all gave way together, and a breach was made through which many might pass.†
Book 12 *breach = break or penetrate
- When, however, he saw the Trojans swarming through the breach in the wall, while the Achaeans were clamouring and struck with panic, he cried aloud, and smote his two thighs with the flat of his hands.†
Book 15
Definitions:
-
(1)
(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall
-
(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.