Please check out this sentence and my editing

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The sentence:
there is no greater victory then to fall from the world a free man.

My edit:
There is no greater victory than to fail a free man of the world.
(Well, here I suddenly realised that the editing is logically flawed. So I checked out the original sentence again and found it rather obscure in its sense. Can you figure it out?)

PS. It seems trying to convey "there is no greater victory than to defeat a free man of the world." But it is still not understandable.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

It seems trying to convey "there is no greater victory than to defeat a free man of the world."

It does not mean that. This appears to be a remark made by the Roman character Spartacus in the recently shown episode 10 of the TV series ""Spartacus: War of the Damned". The correct quote seems to be "There is no greater victory than to fall from this world a free man".

It means "There is no greater victory than to die a free man".

"Fall from this world" is a florid way of saying "die". American scriptwriters think the Romans always talked this way.

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@contrex,

You just love to bad-mouth Americans. You're pathetic.

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@Setanta,

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You just love to bad-mouth Americans.

Which do you think is worse, Set, bad mouthing Americans or listening to Americans' nonstop bragging about America and Americans?

[Feel free to quote me, C, if you have the balls?]

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

You just love to bad-mouth Americans. You're pathetic.

Yes. No.

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