Potentiae causa
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Latin Construction
- ‘For the sake of power or influence’.
Constructions
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Loci
- αʹ Plancus, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 10.24:
| de militum commodis fuit tibi curae; quos ego non potentiae meae causa—nihil enim me non salutariter cogitare scio—ornari volui a senatu | Your concern has been with bounties for the soldiers whom I—not for the sake of my own influence, because I know I plan nothing unwholesome—wished to be decorated by the Senate. |
- βʹ Cicero, De Oratore 1.41:
| quia veteres illi, qui huic scientiae praefuerunt, obtinendae atque augendae potentiae suae causa pervulgari artem suam noluerunt | For those ancients who were at the head of this science, for the sake of obtaining and increasing their influence, did not want their art to be publicized. |
- γʹ Cicero, De Officiis 3.9:
| si nemo sciturus, nemo ne suspicaturus quidem sit, cum aliquid divitiarum, potentiae, dominationis, libidinis causa feceris, si id dis hominibusque futurum sit semper ignotum, sisne facturus? | If no one were to know, if no one were even to suspect, when you were to do something for the sake of riches, influence, power, or pleasure, if it were forever to be unknown to gods and men, wouldn't you do it? |
