In somuch as a certain Proconsull or Legat of theirs dealing one day with Ptolome king of Egypt, seeing him clad in a straite narrow garment very licentiously, disclosing euery part of his body, gave him a great checke for it: and said that vnlesse he vsed more saf and comely garments, the Romaines would take no pleasure to hold amitie with him, for by the wantonness of his garment they would iudge the vanitie of his mind, not to be worthy of their constant friendship.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
Conjecture, though it be sometimes unavoidable, I have not wantonly nor licentiously indulged.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
But Pertinax was created Emperour against the soldiers wills, who being accustomed to live licentiously under Commodus, could not endure that honest course that Pertinax sought to reduce them to: Whereupon having gotten himself hatred, and to this hatred added contempt, in that he was old, was ruind in the very beginning of his government.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli