licet
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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
He was better on the defensive than the aggressive, and hence, bis peccare in bello non licet.
From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. Watkins
The motto on the dials repeated itself to him: Utere dum licet.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Marie Van Vorst
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
Elsewhere were written these two lines: "Quisquis amator erit Scythiæ licet ambulet oris: Nemo adeo ut feriat barbarus esse volet."
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Marc Monnier
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