non licet

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Here Creon offers one of the greatest and simplest rebukes to power in all literature: “Ubi non licet tacere, quid cuiquam licet?”

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Apud nos quod non licet feminis æque non licet viris; et eadem servitus pari conditione censetur.”—Ep. lxxvii.

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It was used for learning to swim, but all trace of it had disappeared before the time of Festus, whose date is uncertain, but who lived before the end of the fourth century— "In thermas fugio: sonas ad aurem, Piscinam peto: non licet natare."

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But the "authority of laws" is invoked against truth—non licet esse vos! is the cry.

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Si concedimus, eos, qui corpora in mundi spatio moveri eademque non moveri posse dicunt, insulsa loqui, praesumere non licet hominem astronomum talem sententiam elocuturum utque eam demonstraret operam daturum esse.

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