īlĭcet, adv. [i, root of īre, and licet; cf. scilicet and videlicet; lit., one may go; hence],
I.A In the oldest per. of the lang., a t. t. with which an assembly was dismissed when the business on hand was at an end, you may go; it is over : semper ilicet finem rei significat, ut actum est. Sic judices de concilio dimittebantur, suprema dicta cum praeco pronunciasset ilicet, quod significat ire licet, Don. Ter. Phorm. 209; cf. Ter. Heaut. 973; Serv. Verg. A. 2, 424; so, at the end of funeral ceremonies, id. ib. 6, 216 and 231.—
B Transf.
1 (Ante-class. and rare.) Ilicet, let us go , let us be gone , Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 35: ilicet: Quid hic conterimus operam frustra? Ter. Phorm. 208; id. Heaut. 973: ilicet parasiticae arti maxumam malam crucem, the parasite's art may go and be hanged , Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 9 Brix.—
2 All is over , to signify that any thing is lost or has failed (ante-class.): ilicet, mandata eri perierunt, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 182; cf.: actum est, ilicet, me infelicem et scelestam, id. Cist. 4, 2, 17; id. Curc. 1, 3, 30, Ter. Eun. 54: ilicet, desine, jam conclamatum est, id. ib. 347: ilicet, vadimonium ultro mihi facit, Plaut. Epid. 5, 2, 19.—
II Through the intermediate idea of hastening (cf.: ilico, extemplo; protinus, continuo, statim), straightway , immediately , instantly , forthwith (ante - class. and in Aug. poets): an tu eloquens ilicet, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 180 P.: fugit ilicet ocior Euro, Speluncamque petit, Verg. A. 8, 223: ilicet ignis edax summa ad fastigia vento Volvitur, id. ib. 2, 758: ilicet obruimur numero, id. ib. 2, 424; Tib. 2, 6, 15 (dub.; Müll. si licet); Stat. Th. 1, 92.