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Illud verò rursus si quis neget, per me sanè licebit, vt illud sit quaddam quasi spectaculum, dum ita in contrarias scinduntur sententias.
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Illud ver� rursus si quis neget, per me san� licebit, vt illud sit quaddam quasi spectaculum, dum ita in contrarias scinduntur sententias.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hic latitudines obseruare, terram describere, bolidem demittere, locorumque ac punctorum distantias annotare, vbi et quoties licebit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The idiom, although more common in elegiac verse, is also found in epic: compare _Aen_ X 14 'tum _certare_ odiis, tum res _rapuisse_ licebit'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Istuc sapienter saltem fecit filius, cum diviti homini id aurum servandum dedit; ab eo licebit quamvis subito sumere.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Quasi uero nos ea quae prouidentia futura esse praenoscit non esse euentura credamus ac non illud potius arbitremur, licet eueniant, nihil tamen ut euenirent sui natura necessitatis habuisse; quod hinc facile perpendas licebit.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Adulterium aut scortatio si admittatur post sponsalia, ac ante conjugium detegatur, personae innocenti justam praebet occasionem contractum illum dissolvendi; [1840] quod si adulterium post conjugium admittatur, licebit parti innocenti divortium lege postulare ac obtinere; [1841] atque quidem post factum divortium conjugio alteri sociari, perinde acsi mortua esset persona illa quae conjugii fidem violabat.
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Magistratus fuerint Ecclesiae hostes aperti, licebit Christi ministris
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Licuit semperque licebit Signatum praesente nota producere nomen [1]. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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And the French are not only apt beyond other nations to abuse the license of stealing from our predecessor _quod licuit semperque licebit_, but also, in a degree peculiar to themselves, they have a false de-naturalized taste in the humorous, and as to the limits of the extravagant.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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