Potestas fieri

Latin Construction

potestas fieri.

1. To be given a chance, or opportunity, or permission.

Constructions

none yet collected

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 13.21:

scripsi enim ad librarios ut fieret tuis, si tu velles, describendi potestas.

For I wrote to the scribes that your men, should you wish, be given the opportunity to make copies.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 12.10:

quibus tamen ad sanitatem redeundi ante K. Sept. potestas facta est.

However, a chance of returning to sanity before the first of September was given to them.

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 2.17:

de rationibus referendis, non erat incommodum te nullam referre, quam tibi scribis a Bibulo fieri potestatem

As for bringing back the accounts, it was no inconvenience that you brought nothing back, as you write Bibulus gave you permission.