[695] ‘To separate the struggling soul from the limbs that cling to it.’ Cerda rightly remarks that the metaphor is thoughout from the palaestra. Comp. Ov. M. 6. 242, “et iam contulerant arto luctantia nexu Pectora pectoribus.” Not unlike is Lucr. 2.950, “Vitalis animae nodos e corpore solvit.”
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