licet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →liceo, licere, licui, licitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Impersonal
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
it is permitted, one may; it is all right, lawful, allowed, permitted;; fetch (price); (with ABL or GEN);
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd - Entry →licet:
Conjunction
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
although, granted that; (with subjunctive);
Examples
- P
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...fatis Lavinia coniunx: at trahere atque moras tantis licet addere rebus, at licet amborum populos exscindere regum..." - P
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...praerepta; nec solos tangit Atridas iste dolor, solisque licet capere arma Mycenis. "sed periisse semel satis est": peccare..." - P
Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...cuius ob auspicium infaustum moresque sinistros (dicam equidem, licet arma mihi mortemque minetur) lumina tot cecidisse ducum totamque..." - P
Ecloga IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...pluuiam ne colligat ante ueremur, cantantes licet usque (minus uia laedit) eamus: cantantes ut eamus..." - P
Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...tegere et iamdudum incumbere aratris, dum sicca tellure licet, dum nubila pendent. uere fabis satio; tum te quoque..." - P
Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...motu, continuoque animos vulgi et trepidantia bello corda licet longe praesciscere; namque morantes Martius ille aeris rauci canor..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...insulsa male et molesta vivis, per quam non licet esse neglegentem.' XI. ad Furium et Aurelium Furi..." - P
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...insidiae tales (absiste moveri), nec vim tela ferunt; licet ingens ianitor antro aeternum latrans exsanguis terreat umbras, casta..."