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The journey she records here feels like a clearing and a clarifying, bringing to mind the old Latin tag solvitur ambulando: literally, sorting it out by walking.
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review 2011
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Amantium morbus ut pruritus solvitur, venae sectione et cucurbitulus.
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Radix mandragora ebibitae, Annuli ex ungulis Asini, Stercus amatae sub cervical positum, illa nesciente, &c., quum odorem foeditatis sentit, amor solvitur.
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But Socrates seems to intimate that the time had arrived for discarding these hackneyed illustrations; such difficulties had long been solved by common sense (‘solvitur ambulando’); the fact of the co-existence of opposites was a sufficient answer to them.
Philebus 2006
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Tympanum says that the statement about the stick “is merely a blind, to which the old answer may well be applied, solvitur ambulando, or rather mergendo”.
A Tangled Tale 2003
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Indeed, as Ammianus Marcellinus, referring to the Arabs, says: “Incredible est quo ardore apud eos in venerem uterque solvitur sexus.”
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For Liberalism, society has no life distinct from the life of the individuals, or as the phrase goes: solvitur in singularitates.
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It might indeed be given in the answer to the old puzzle, _solvitur ambulando_; for, given a clear aim and common sense, most difficulties in education disappear as one goes on.
Cambridge Essays on Education Various
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Is lembus nostrae navi insidias dabat. occepi ego observare eos quam rem gerant. interea e portu nostra navis solvitur. ubi portu eximus, homines remigio sequi, neque aves neque venti citius. quoniam sentio 290 quae res gereretur, navem extemplo statuimus. quoniam vident nos stare, occeperunt ratem tardare [10] in portu.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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"Jam surgit hora tertia", "Bis ternas horas explicas", and "Ter horas trina solvitur", we shall have a new constitutive element of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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