(v. a.P. a.) : rĕ-solvo, solvi, sŏlūtum, 3, v. a.
* To untie, unfasten, unbind; to loose, loosen, release, open (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; cf.: relaxo, resero, recludo, libero).
* Lit.
* 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.
* Trop.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* In partic. (acc. to I. B.).
* To relax, soften: disciplinam militarem,Tac. H. 1, 51: judices,Quint. 4, 2, 19; id. 8, prooem § 12.
* 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.
* Free, unhampered: os, Val.Max. 8, 7, ext. 1.
* Unbridled: gaudia,Sil. 11, 305.—Adv.: rĕsŏlūtē, without restraint: quo resolutius decachinnetis,more unrestrainedly,Tert. ad Nat. 1, 19.