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Again, the remonstrance of Micio to Demea, Si esses homo, Sineres nunc facere, dum per aetatem licet, expresses the philosophy of many of his love poems and his drinking songs.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
With a few other expressions, such as necesse est, reliquus est, sequitur, licet, oportet; as,— sequitur ut doceam, it remains for me to show; licet redeās, you may return; oportet loquāmur, we must speak.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
None can enjoy at one and the same time the pure pleasure of ideality and the debasing joys of sensuality; for the proverb "quod licet bovi non licet Jovi" avails also when inverted.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath
O vice was more greuous, and horrible emong the Scithians then thefte, for this was their sai- yng: Quid saluum esse poterit si licet furari, what can be safe, if thefte bee lefull or tolerated.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
Because—as anciently Propertius demanded, though not, to speak the truth, of any woman— Quo fugis? ah demens! nulla est fuga, tu licet usque Ad Tanaim fugias, usque sequetur amor.
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
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