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Tech/Engineering - Mechanics / Mech Engineering / trucks | | English term or phrase: settle it with your fists | | i have the litteral translation for this, but i require the actual idiomatic meaning...can anybody help? |
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| | pugnis certare | Explanation:
A Ciceronian idiom (Tusc. Disp. 5.27.77, and elsewhere). The ablative is instrumental. If you're looking for the imperative sing. act., it would be 'certa pugnis', plur. act. 'certate pugnis'. |
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