In potestate omnia

Latin Construction

in potestate omnia.

1. ‘Everything in [someone’s] power.’

Constructions

Noun constructions

• omnia in unius potestate — Cic. [αʹ], [βʹ]

Verb constructions

• in potestate omnia esse — Cic. [αʹ], [βʹ]

Loci

• αʹ n., 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., v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.19:

quod in unius potestate erant omnia

because everything was under the power of one man