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Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.
Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 2:14:
Gloria in altissimis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will.
“voluntas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
voluntas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
voluntas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
when life runs smoothly: in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem fluentibus
to find favour with some one; to get into their good graces: benevolentiam, favorem, voluntatem alicuius sibi conciliare or colligere (ex aliqua re)
to look favourably upon; to support: propenso animo, studio esse or propensa voluntate esse in aliquem (opp. averso animo esse ab aliquo)
to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: se conformare, se accommodare ad alicuius voluntatem
to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: alicuius voluntati morem gerere
to become estranged, alienated from some one: voluntatemor animum alicuius a se abalienare, aliquem a se abalienare or alienare
to satisfy a person's wishes: voluntati alicuius satisfacere, obsequi
a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
the last wishes of a deceased person: alicuius mortui voluntas (suprema)
the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis
unpopularity: offensa populi voluntas
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN