Potestas non est

Latin Construction

potestas non est.

1. ‘There is no opportunity.’

Constructions

none yet collected

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 11.2:

tardius ad te remisi tabellarium quod potestas mittendi non fuit.

I was slower in sending your courier back, because there was no opportunity to send him.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 13.9:

et vereor ne exeundi potestas non sit cum Caesar venerit

and I'm afraid that there will be no opportunity to leave once Caesar has come

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 8.3:

maximis et miserrimis rebus perturbatus, cum coram tecum mihi potestas deliberandi non esset, uti tamen tuo consilio volui.

Troubled by the gravest and most saddening matters when I have no opportunity to go over them with you in person, I nevertheless wanted to make use of your advice.