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  • = Ovid is clearly imitating _Aen_ VII 557-58 (Juno to Allecto) 'te super aetherias _errare licentius_ auras/haud pater ille uelit, summi regnator Olympi', apparently the only other instance of _licentius_ in classical verse.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • INVENIAT, quod quisque uelit: non omnibus unum est,

    Thorns and Roses Petronius 1912

  • NEC mi aurum posco nec mi pretium dederitis: non cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes, ferro, non auro, uitam cernamus utrique, uosne uelit an me regnare era quidue ferat Fors uirtute experiamur. et hoc simul accipe dictum: 5 quorum uirtuti belli fortuna pepercit, corundem libertati me parcere certum est. dono, ducite, doque uolentibus cum magnis dis.

    The Speech of Pyrrhus 1912

  • Plus negoti habet quam cum est negotium in negotio; nam cui quod agat institutumst (is) in illo negotio id agit, (id) studet, ibi mentem atque animum delectat suum. otioso in otio homini animus nescit quid uelit.

    Molestum Otium 1912

  • Alpheosque sacer lauat. si forma uelit aspici, cedent Aesonio duci proles fulminis improbi aptat qui iuga tigribus, 30 nec non, qui tripodas mouet, frater uirginis asperae, cedet Castore cum suo

    Hymeneal 1912

  • "Non est igitur aliquid quod summo huic bono uel uelit uel possit obsistere."

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Quae si etiam fruenti iucunda esse uideatur, tamen quo minus cum uelit abeat retineri non possit.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Cuius uero causa quid expetitur, id maxime uidetur optari, ueluti si salutis causa quispiam uelit equitare, non tam equitandi motum desiderat quam salutis effectum.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • _uelit_ ore docet ', _Tr_ II 294' _sustulerit_ quare quaeret

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • aut, quod non potis est, esse pudica uelit: ipse ualere opto et taetrum hunc deponere morbum.

    Vitam puriter egi 1912

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