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Incantatricem describens: Haec se carminibus promittit solvere mentes.
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Deux ace non possunt, et sixeinque solvere nolunt; Omnibus est notum quater tre solvere totum.
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[5273] Tam impresso ore ut vix inde labra detrahant, cervice reclinata, as Lamprias in Lucian kissed Thais, Philippus her [5274] Aristaenetus, amore lymphato tam uriose adhaesit, ut vix labra solvere esset, totumque os mihi contrivit;
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He remembered a line from Juvenal: Scire volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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He remembered a line from Juvenal: Scire volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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[401] _Poenas pendere_, the same as _poenas solvere_, 'to pay a penalty.'
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Stygem vénisset, pretium tráiectús solvere posset.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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Charón solvere nólébat; mágnopere enim verébátur né scapha sua tantó pondere oneráta in medió flúmine mergerétur.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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To Tertullian solvere stationem meant exactly the same as solvere jejunium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In regard to the question of the minister of absolution, or who can absolve from censures, we have the general principle: "only he can loose who can bind" (illius est solvere cujus est ligare); in other words, only those can absolve who have the necessary jurisdiction.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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