Dare potestatem

Latin Construction

d|are potestatem.

1. To give power.

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• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 3.17:

tantum velim fortuna det nobis potestatem ut incolumes amore nostro perfruamur.

I only wish Fortune would give us the opportunity to enjoy our love unharmed.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.1:

legem consules conscripserunt qua Pompeio per quinquennium omnis potestas rei frumentariae toto orbe terrarum daretur

The consuls drew up a law by which Pompey was given, for five years, full control over affairs pertaining to grain all over the world.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.1:

alteram Messius qui omnis pecuniae dat potestatem et adiungit classem et exercitum et maius imperium in provinciis quam sit eorum qui eas obtineant.

And Messius drew up another, which gives power over all money and adds the navy, the army, and greater command over the provinces than even the people who govern them would have.