Posse abolere
From TTT
Latin Construction
- ‘To be able to destroy.’
Loci
- αʹ Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.871-872:
| Jāmqu(e) ŏpŭs | ēxē|gī, quōd | nēc Jŏvĭs | īră nĕc | īgnīs nēc pŏtĕ|rīt fēr|rūm nĕc ĕ|dāx ăbŏ|lērĕ vĕ|tūstās. | And now I have completed a work that neither the wrath of Jupiter nor fire nor the sword nor gluttonous Time can do away with. |
- βʹ Vergil, Georgica 3.559–560:
| Nām nĕqu(e) ĕ|rāt cŏrĭ|īs ū|sūs, nēc | vīscĕră quīsquām āut ūn|dīs ăbŏ|lērĕ pŏ|tēst āut | vīncĕrĕ | flāmmā | For there was no use for their hides, nor could anyone subdue the flesh beneath the waves or destroy it with fire. |
