licentia — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 8 · 20.48/10k
De Monogamia 10 · 14.32/10k
Historiae 5 · 12.32/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Eumenes 2 · 8.74/10k
Pro M. Tullio 3 · 8.73/10k
Ad Uxorem 3 · 7.22/10k
Pro M. Scauro 2 · 6.73/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Divus Vespasianus 2 · 6.25/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k

Densest 12 of 135 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lĭcentĭa — Lewis & Short

lĭcentĭa, ae, f.licet,

I freedom, liberty, leave to do as one pleases, license.

I In gen.: Dae. Licet ... licet ... licet. Tr. Hercules istum infelicet cum sua licentia, Plaut. Rud. 4, 6, 21: nobis nostra Academia magnam licentiam dat, ut, etc., Cic. Off. 3, 4, 20: pueris non omnem ludendi licentiam damus, id. ib. 1, 29, 103: tantum licentiae dabat gloria, id. de Sen. 13, 44: absolvendi, Tac. A. 14, 49: lasciviendi permittere militibus, Suet. Caes. 67.—

II In partic.

A Liberty which one assumes, boldness, presumption, license: homo ad scribendi licentiam liber, Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 123: a Democrito omnino haec licentia, id. ib. 1, 38, 107: per intercalandi licentiam, by arbitrary intercalation, Suet. Caes. 40.—Freq. of style: poëtarum, Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153: juvenilis quaedam dicendi impunitas et licentia, id. Brut. 91, 316: figurarum, Quint. 10, 1, 28.—

2 In rhet. as a figure of speech, = parrhsi/a, boldness, freedom of speech, Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48: poëtica, Quint. 2, 4, 3; 4, 1, 58: declamatoria, id. 8, 3, 76.—

B Unrestrained liberty, unbounded license, dissoluteness, licentiousness: deteriores omnes sumus licentia, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 74: nimia illaec licentia evadet in aliquod magnum malum, id. Ad. 3, 4, 63: omnium rerum infinita atque intoleranda licentia, Cic. Agr. 1, 5, 5: licentia libidoque, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 77: cupiditatum, id. Att. 10, 4, 1; id. Off. 2, 8, 28: habere impunitatem et licentiam sempiternam, id. Mil. 31, 84: quorum licentiae nisi Carneades restitisset, id. Div. 2, 72, 150: malle licentiam suam quam aliorum libertatem, Liv. 3, 37: Sullani temporis, lawlessness, Suet. Gram. 11: militum, Nep. Eum. 8: indomitam Refrenare (licentiam), Hor. C. 3, 24, 29: licentiam coërcere, Tac. H. 1, 35: in libertatibus quoque dandis nimiam licentiam compescuit lex Fufia Caninia, Gai. Inst. 2, 228.—Of inanimate things: magna gladiorum est licentia, the license of the sword is great, i. e. daring murders are prevalent, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 12: immensa licentia ponti, Ov. M. 1, 309.—

C Personified as a goddess: templum Licentiae (for Libertatis), Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 42; cf. Libertas.

In the wild

licentia Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.2.11
licentiam Tertullian, De Monogamia 11
licentia Seneca, De Ira 2.21.3
licentiam Cicero, Philippicae 1.34
licentiae Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.59.4
licentiam Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.123

6 of 460 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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