untie Copy link Outline 1. solvo, solvi, sŏlūtum, 32. dissolvo, 33. laxo, 1 • untie: 1. solvo, solvi, sŏlūtum, 3: to u. a knot, nodum s., Hor. Od. 3, 21, 22: the husband u.s the girdle fastened with the Herculean knot, cingulum nodo Herculeaneo vinctum vir s., Sen. Ep. 87, ad fin.: v. unbind, unloose. 2. dissolvo, 3: to u. knots, nodos d., Lucr. 6, 356. 3. laxo, 1: v. to unloose. Phr.: to u. knots, nodos manu diducere, Ov. Met. 2, 560.