Licentia, licentiæ, fœ. gen. Terentius. Licence: vnlawfull, or immoderate libertie: power, or licence to doe.Deteriores omnes sumus licentia.Terent.Licentia & libertas.Cic.Pœna absuit, & licentia consecuta est.Cic.Licentia ad maledicendum.Cic.Licentia temporum. Pli. iun. A time when men vse ouer much libertie and do almost what they will.Constricta licentia nullo modo. Claud. Effræna. Claud. Effusa. Tacit.Diebus festæ licentiæ dicere solebamus. Quint. Fœcunda licentia vatum.Ouid.Immensa licentia ponti Ouid.Indomita. Horat. Lasciua. Horat. Nocturna licentia.Ouid. Licentiam dare pecunias eripiendi.Cic.To giue libertie.Dare insinitam licentiam iudici. Sen. To giue a ludge commission without exception of any thing.Ferri licentia. Lucan. The rage of fworde killing in enerye place.Vaganti fræna licentiæ iniccit. Horat. He brideled the outragious licentiousnesse.Notare licentiam verbi. Quint. Permittere licentiam.Cic.Licentiam luxuriæ pollicetur.Cic.Prodere licentiam mentiendi. Quint. Transcendet hæc licentia in prouincias.Tacit. Licentia in bonam partem.Cic. Nobis autem nostra Academia magnam licentiam dat, vt quodcunque maxime probabile occurrat, id nostro iure liceat defendere.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lĭcentĭa, ae, f. [licet], 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, id. 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.