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Anno 1270, at [6602] Magdeburg in Germany, a Jew fell into a privy upon a Saturday, and without help could not possibly get out; he called to his fellows for succour, but they denied it, because it was their Sabbath, non licebat opus manuum exercere; the bishop hearing of it, the next day forbade him to be pulled out, because it was our Sunday.
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_Novellae_, 140, 1: Antiquitus quidem licebat sine periculo tales [i.e., those of incompatible temperament] ab invicem separari secundum communem voluntatem et consensum.
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[254] Novellae, 140, 1: Antiquitus quidem licebat sine periculo tales
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_ 17, 'Et Cerealis quidem alterius successoris curam famamque obruisset: sustinuit molem Iulius Frontinus, vir magnus, quantum licebat, validamque et pugnacem Silurum gentem armis subegit, super virtutem hostium locorum quoque difficultates eluctatus.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Majores eorum omnia, quae licebat, illis reliquere, divitias, imagines, memoriam sui praeclaram; virtutem non reliquere, neque poterant; ea sola neque datur dono neque accipitur.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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[258] Novellae, 22 (praefatio): Antiquitas equidem non satis aliquid de prioribus aut secundis perserutabatur nuptiis, sed licebat et patribus et matribus et ad plures venire nuptias et lucro nullo privari, et causa erat in simplicitate confusa.
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Quibus mihi videntur ludibrio fuisse divitiae; quippe quas honeste habere licebat, abuti per turpitudinem properabant.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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[54] _De Utilitate_, p. 357: "Nam in urbe nec collegium recipere volebat nec cum aliquo ex illis artem exercere licebat et sine illis difficillimum erat."
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But, 'non licebat dogmatizare oppositum, quia determinatum fuerat.'
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Neque enim pro patria pugnare cuiquam licebat, nisi honesto genere nato.
Joannis Laurentii Lydi Philadelpheni De magistratibus reipublicae Romanae ... Johannes Laurentius Lydus, Jean Dominique Fuss, Charles Benoît Hase 1812
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