In tua potestate

Latin Construction

in tua potestate.

1. ‘In your power,’ in your keeping.

Constructions

Verb constructions

• in tua potestate esse — Cic. [αʹ], [βʹ], [γʹ], [γ²]

Loci

• αʹ 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.

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

cum ipsi in tua potestate fuerimus

when we ourselves are in your power

• γʹ 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.

• γ² 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.