Note 3 — XIII. Commerce and Agriculture
H. W. (Henry William) Auden translation
solvendo is a predicative dative. For the development of such uses cf. nulli rei erimus postea (Plaut. Stich. 718); Ovid Met. 15. 403 dedit huic aetas vires onerique ferendo est; Liv. 4. 35 experiunda res est sitne aliqui plebeius ferendo magno honori.