Meaning of libet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to be pleasing; to be agreeable
   conjugation-2, impersonal, with-dative
2. third-person singular present active subjunctive of lībō
   active, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person

Examples

“254-184 B.C.E., Plautus, Asinaria Dīc quod libet.”

"Say what you will." (literally: "Say what is pleasing.")

“Quōrsus hoc? Ut intellegerētis, sī voluptātem aspernārī ratiōne et sapientiā nōn possēmus, magnam habendam esse senectūtī grātiam, quae efficeret: ut id nōn libēret, quod nōn opertēret. To what [end] is this [discussion]? It is so that you might understand, that if we are unable to reject [the lure of] sensual pleasure through reason and wisdom, we must owe a great [debt of] gratitude to old age, for what it will bring about: that [sensual pleasure] will no [longer] be pleasing [to us], due to its being improper [to advanced age]. (Nota bene: Be sure not to confuse libet, libēre, “to please,” with līberō, līberāre, “to set free.”)”

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