rĕ-solvo — Lewis & Short
rĕ-solvo, solvi, sŏlūtum, 3, v. a.,
I to untie, unfasten, unbind; to loose, loosen, release, open (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; cf.: relaxo, resero, recludo, libero).
I Lit.
A In gen.:
equos,to unyoke, Ov. F. 4, 180; cf.:
juncta juga leonibus,Cat. 63, 76:
quem suā sponte vinxerit, non resolvat, etc.,Col. 1, 8, 16; 11, 1, 22:
cinctas vestes,Ov. M. 1, 382; cf.
nodum,Cels. 7, 4, 4:
fila,to loose, separate, Ov. M. 2, 654:
vulnera,to unbind, Quint. 6, 1, 30; 49:
oras,to cast loose from the shore, Liv. 22, 19, 10 Drak. N. cr.:
virginem catenis,i. e. to release, Ov. M. 4, 737; cf.:
crura vinclis,id. A. A. 3, 272:
(puella) resoluta capillos,id. Am. 2, 14, 39:
claustra,to open, Lucr. 1, 415:
litteras,Liv. 26, 15:
venas,Tac. A. 6, 48:
jugulum mucrone,Ov. M. 1, 227:
ferro,id. ib. 6, 643:
manum in diversum,Quint. 11, 3, 97:
fauces haec in verba,Ov. M. 2, 282; cf.:
exspectato Ora sono,id. ib. 13, 126:
fatis ora,Verg. G. 4, 452;
and simply ora,id. A. 3, 457:
ignis aurum resolvit,melts, dissolves, Lucr. 6, 967:
nivem,to melt, thaw, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 13; cf.:
resolutus repente Rhenus,Suet. Dom. 6:
margaritas in tabem,Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:
glaebam in pulverem,Col. 11, 2, 60:
nummos,to melt down, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 30 fin. — Poet.:
nebulas ventis ac sole,to disperse, dissipate, scatter, Ov. M. 14, 400; cf.
tenebras (sidere),Verg. A. 8, 591:
resoluta caligo,Sil. 5, 58: Zephyro se glaeba, becomes loose or soft, Verg. G. 1, 44; Curt. 4, 6, 11:
terra resoluta,Col. 4, 1, 4; 11, 3, 5:
muros ariete,to break down, Sil. 5, 553:
cinctos muros,id. 12, 495:
saxa,id. 1, 369. —
B In partic.
1 To relax, unnerve, enervate, enfeeble the body (cf. remitto):
felicitas hos inflat, illos mollit et totos resolvit,Sen. Ep. 36, 1:
(Cerberus) immania terga resolvit Fusus humi,stretched out, Verg. A. 6, 422:
nexos artus,id. ib. 4, 695:
utrumque (concubitus),Ov. A. A. 2, 683:
corpus (somno),id. M. 7, 328:
placitā resoluta quiete,id. ib. 9, 468:
membra ad molles choros,Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 42; Curt. 4, 16, 13:
fatigatione resolutus,id. 6, 8, 21; 9, 5, 10.—
2 Mostly ante-class., to pay a debt:
minas,Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 39:
argentum,id. ib. 3, 2, 16; id. Men. 5, 5, 30:
pro vecturā,id. As. 2, 4, 27; cf. Cato, R. R. 144, 3; 145, 1; 148, 2:
damnum boni viri arbitratu resolvere,id. ib. 149, 2. —
II Trop.
A In gen. (acc. to I. A.), to separate, unbind, set free, release; to disclose, show, reveal, lay open; to annul, cancel, make void, abolish, destroy (syn. rescindo):
ipsas periodos majoribus intervallis et velut laxioribus nodis resolvemus,Quint. 9, 4, 127:
quoniam, quā fieri quicquid posset ratione, resolvi,have disclosed, shown, Lucr. 5, 773:
teque piacula nulla resolvent,release, Hor. C. 1, 28, 34:
amore resolutus,Tib. 1, 10, 83:
(Hannibal) Quod sponte abscedat tandemque resolvat Ausoniam,liberate, Sil. 17, 206:
resoluta legibus urbs,id. 11, 36:
ira resoluta frenis legum,Luc. 2, 145:
litem quod lite resolvit,does away with, ends, Hor. S. 2, 3, 103:
invitat genialis hiems curasque resolvit,banishes, dispels, Verg. G. 1, 302:
tristitiam animi,Plin. 24, 6, 15, § 24:
dolos tecti ambagesque,i. e. find the way through, Verg. A. 6, 29:
jura (pudoris),id. ib. 4, 27:
dolos fraudesque,Sil. 7, 153:
gaudia ferro,id. 13, 508:
amphiboliam,to destroy, remove, Quint. 7, 9, 4:
ambiguitatem,id. 12, 2, 13:
dicta ex parte diversā,i. e. refute, id. 5, 13, 12:
vectigal et onera commerciorum,to abolish, Tac. H. 4, 65:
stipulationem,Dig. 21, 2, 57 fin.:
conventionem,ib. 41, 5, 2:
emptionem,ib. 18, 2, 2 et saep. —
B In partic. (acc. to I. B.).
1 To relax, soften:
disciplinam militarem,Tac. H. 1, 51:
judices,Quint. 4, 2, 19; id. 8, prooem § 12. —
2 To pay:
unā plagā (cf. I. B. 2. supra),Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 73 (but in Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 38, the correct reading is persoluturum). — Hence, rĕsŏlūtus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 1.), relaxed, enervated, effeminate:
corpora juvenum (with fluxa), Col. praef. § 17: minister Idaeo resolutior cinaedo,Mart. 10, 98.—
2 Free, unhampered: os, Val.Max. 8, 7, ext. 1.—
3 Unbridled:
gaudia,Sil. 11, 305.—Adv.: rĕsŏlūtē, without restraint:
quo resolutius decachinnetis,more unrestrainedly, Tert. ad Nat. 1, 19.