settle it with your fists
Latin translation: pugnis certare
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3 days 21 hrs confidence: 
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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