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
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..."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..."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..."Ecloga IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...pluuiam ne colligat ante ueremur, cantantes licet usque (minus uia laedit) eamus: cantantes ut eamus..."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..."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..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...insulsa male et molesta vivis, per quam non licet esse neglegentem.' XI. ad Furium et Aurelium Furi..."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..."