In unius potestate esse

Latin Construction

in unius potestate esse.

1. ‘To be under one [person's] power.’

Constructions

Noun constructions

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

Loci

• αʹ n. 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's being driven at is that everything might be back under one man's power, then whoever that man is, I declare I am his enemy.

• βʹ n. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.19:

quod in unius potestate erant omnia

because everything was under the power of one man