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De poena possumus equidem dicere id quod res habet; [258] in luctu atque miseriis mortem aerumnarum requiem, non cruciatum esse, eam cuncta mortalium mala dissolvere, ultra neque curae neque gaudio locum esse.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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_ The phrase _argumenta ambifariam dissolvere_ is very obscure.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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Zeno's method; for _dissolvere_ should refer to Zeno's method of disproof, which is not properly called dilemma.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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Zeno's argumentation also could be correctly described as _ambifariam dissolvere_, because he refuted the thesis opposed to that of Parmenides by showing that it involves a contradiction.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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51: "Mortem cuncta mortalium dissolvere, ultra neque curae neque gaudio locum esse."
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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