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175 months ago

Lilian M.Salih (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

German > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

pflügt das Meer

Context:

wer sich eine Revoultion vorschreibt, pflügt das Meer

Keywords:

a translation of the whole context

 

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175 months ago

  See profile wrote:

All who have served the Revolution have plowed the sea OR Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.

My comment:

Those are Simon Bolivar's last words or last written statement.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simón_Bol%C3%ADvar

My references:

First option is a translation found in "Simón Bolívar : A Story of Courage" (1941) by Elizabeth Dey Jenkinson Waugh, p. 320;
Second one found in: "Man, State, and Society in Latin American History" (1972) by Sheldon B. Liss and Peggy K. Liss, p. 133

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