In potestatem venire

Latin Construction

in potestatem venire.

1. ‘To come into [one’s] power.’

Constructions

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Loci

• αʹ Caesar, ap. Cicero, Ad Atticum 9.7c:

iam duo praefecti fabrum Pompei in meam potestatem venerunt et a me missi sunt.

At this point two of Pompey's prefects of engineers have come into my power, and I have let them go.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Brutum 2.5:

in potestatem perditissimi hominis et turpissimi M. Antoni veniendum fuerit

[The matter] would have come under the authority of Mark Antony—such a shameless and degenerate man.