In potestate

Latin Construction

in potestate.

1. ‘In [someone’s] power.’

Constructions

Adjective constructions

• in mea potestate — ‘in my power,’ Cic. [εʹ], [στʹ], [ζʹ]
• in tua potestate — ‘in your power,’ Cic. [ηʹ], [θʹ], [ιʹ], [ιαʹ]

Noun constructions

• in eius potestate — ‘in his power,’ Cic. [γʹ], [δʹ]
• in potestate omnia — ‘everything in [someone’s] power,’ Cic. [αʹ], [βʹ]
• in unius potestate — ‘in the power of one person,’ Cic. [αʹ], [βʹ]

Verb constructions

• in potestate esse — ‘to be in [someone’s] power,’ Cic. [ιβʹ], [ηʹ], [ιδʹ], [ιεʹ], [ιστʹ], [ιζʹ], [αʹ], [γʹ], [θʹ], [βʹ], [ιʹ], [ιαʹ], [ζʹ], [δʹ]

Loci

• αʹ n. n.² v. Pollio, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 10.31:

Ita, si id agitur ut rursus in potestate omnia unius sint, quicumque is est, ei me profiteor inimicum.

So if what they're driving at is for everything to be under one man's power again, I promise I will be that man's enemy, whoever he is.

• βʹ n. n.² v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.19:

quod in unius potestate erant omnia

because everything was under the power of one man

• γʹ n. v. Pollio, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 10.31:

Unas enim post Idus Martias demum a Pansa litteras accepi, in quibus hortatur me, ut senatui scribam me et exercitum in potestate eius futurum.

For I received one letter from Pansa, and not till March 15, in which he urges me to write to the senate that I and my army would be under its command.

• δʹ n. v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 4.7:

Tamen id cogitare deberes, ubicumque esses, te fore in eius ipsius, quem fugeres, potestate.

You should have considered, though, that wherever you might be, you would be in the power of the very man you were running away from.

• εʹ adj. Brutus, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 1.4:

Illud [arbitrium] quidem non muto, quod ei quem me occidere res non coegit neque crudeliter quicquam eripui neque dissolute quicquam remisi, habuique in mea potestate quoad bellum fuit.

I will not in fact change my mind on this, because I neither confiscated anything out of cruelty from this man—whom circumstances did not compel me to kill—nor out of weakness did I restore anything to him; I maintained control over him throughout the war.

• στʹ adj. Pollio, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 10.32:

Et provinciam in otio et exercitum in mea potestate tenui

I kept the province in peace and the army under my control.

• ζʹ adj. v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 15.16:

Doceas tu me oportebit, cum salvus veneris, in meane potestate sit spectrum tuum, ut simul ac mihi collibitum sit de te cogitare, illud accurrat

Once you've gotten here safe, you ought to explain to me whether your apparition should be under my control; as it rushes to me whenever I feel like thinking about you.

• ηʹ adj. v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 13.24:

Quattuor διφθέραι sunt in tua potestate. Quod egeris id probabo.

The four parchments are under your control. I will approve of whatever you do.

• θʹ adj. v. Brutus and Cassius, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 11.2:

cum ipsi in tua potestate fuerimus

when we ourselves are in your power

• ιʹ adj. v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.39:

est igitur in tua potestate, ut ille in me satis sibi praesidii putet esse.

So it's in your hands to make him consider me good enough protection for him.

• ιαʹ adj. v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.73:

etiam atque etiam peto ut eius filios, qui in tua potestate sunt, mihi potissimum condones

Again and again I beg you, for my sake especially, to give up his sons, who are in your power.

• ιβʹ v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 11.20:

et ab hoc ipso quae dantur, ut a domino, rursus in eiusdem sunt potestate.

And the things given by the man himself, as by a master, are back in his own power.

• ιγʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 12.22a:

fac, ut provinciam retineas in potestate rei publicae

Make sure you keep your province under the control of the republic.

• ιδʹ v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 3.22:

saepe enim tu ad me scripsisti eum totum esse in illius potestate.

You have often written to me that he is entirely under the man's influence.

• ιεʹ v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 5.8:

primum ut in potestate nostra esset res

First, that the property should be under our control.

• ιστʹ v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 7.22:

pedem in Italia video nullum esse qui non in istius potestate sit.

I don't see a single square foot of Italy that's not under his power.

• ιζʹ v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 1.8:

sunt quidem certe in amicorum nostrorum potestate

They are indeed surely under our friends' control.