Summa potentia

Latin Construction

summa potentia. fem.

1. ‘The highest of power;’ absolute power.

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Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 7.4:

Illum, cui etiam inimici alterum consulatum, fortuna summam potentiam dederit non arbitror fore tam amentem ut haec in discrimen adducat.

I don't believe that this man, whose enemies, even, have given another consulship to, and to whom Fortune has given absolute power, would be so senseless as to put these things in jeopardy.

• βʹ Cicero, Philippica 11.5:

Alter Caesar Vopiscus ille summo ingenio, summa potentia, qui ex aedilitate consulatum petit, solvatur legibus.

Let this second Caesar, the most talented and most powerful Vopiscus, who runs for consul after his aedileship, be freed from the laws.

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.29:

Omnia, quae potui in hac summa tua gratia ac potentia a te impetrare, si petivissem, ultro te ad me detulisse putabo, si hanc rem impetravero.

Everything I had asked for, which I could have obtained from you in this, the height of your public approval and influence, I will consider you to have granted me on your own, if I can have this one thing.