Potestas rei

Latin Construction

potestas rei. fem.

1. ‘Power or control over a matter.’

Constructions

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Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 16.16:

cum tota potestas eius rei tua sit

as the situation is wholly under your control

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.1:

legem consules conscripserunt qua Pompeio per quinquennium omnis potestas rei frumentariae toto orbe terrarum daretur

The consuls drew up a law by which Pompey was given, for five years, full control over affairs pertaining to grain all over the world.

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.9:

cuius rei quantam potestatem quaestor habeat, non sum ignarus

I am not unaware how much power a quaestor has over the matter.