Facultas est

Latin Construction

facultas est.

1. There is skill, means, or ability; there is a way.

Constructions

Preposition constructions

• facultas in (aliquem) est — Cic. [δʹ], [εʹ]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Brutum 1.5:

Si statueris in Asiam tibi eundum, nulla erit ad comitia nostros accersendi facultas.

If you have decided you have to go to Asia, there will be no way to summon our people to the comitia.

• βʹ Plancus, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 10.4:

Neque, si facultas, optabilis mihi quidem, tui praesentis esset, umquam a tuis consiliis discreparem.

And if there had been a chance of having you with me, which I really would have preferred, I would never have disagreed with your advice.

• γʹ Brutus, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 11.20:

Quattuor legionibus iis, quibus agros dandos censuistis, video facultatem fore ex agris Sullanis et agro Campano.

I see there will be enough, out of Sulla's lands and that of Campania, for those four legions which you all have decided to give land to.

• δʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Familiares 4.13:

At ea quidem facultas vel tui vel alterius consolandi in te summa est, si umquam in ullo fuit

Yet that ability itself—of consoling either yourself or someone else—is at its highest in you, if it was ever in anybody.

• εʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Familiares 9.18:

Ipsa illa si qua fuit in me facultas orationis, nisi me ad has exercitationes rettulissem, exaruisset.

That skill in oratory itself—whatever there was in me—would have dried up if I hadn't gone back to these exercises.

• στʹ Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.8:

Ludos apparat magnificentissimos, sic, inquam, ut nemo sumptuosiores—stulte bis terque non postulatos, vel quia munus magnificum dederat, vel quia facultates non erant, vel quia potuerat magistrum se, non aedilem putare.

He is putting together such magnificent games; I would say nobody has had any more expensive—stupid on two or three different levels, as they were not asked for, because he has already given a great gladiator show, because the means aren't there, because he should be considering that he is a magister, not an aedile.