Contra potentiam

Latin Construction

contra potentiam.

1. Against [some] power.

Constructions

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Loci

• αʹ Brutus, ap. Cicero, Ad Brutum 1.16:

sunt enim laudanda, si modo contra alienam potentiam non pro sua suscepit eas actiones.

For [the things he has done so far] ought to be praised, so long as he took up those actions against the power of another, not for the sake of his own.

• βʹ Cicero, Brutus 44.164:

et invidia concitatur in iudicum et in accusatorum factionem, contra quorum potentiam populariter tum dicendum fuit.

And jealousy is stirred up against the party of the judges and the prosecutors, whose power it was then necessary to speak against populistically.