Tua potestas

Latin Construction

tua potestas. fem.

1. ‘Your power.’

Constructions

Preposition constructions

• in tua potestate — Cic., [αʹ], [δʹ], [εʹ], [ηʹ]

Loci

• αʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Atticum 13.24:

Quattuor διφθέραι sunt in tua potestate. Quod egeris id probabo.

The four parchments are under your control. I will approve of whatever you do.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 14.13:

qua re quoniam hoc a me sic petis ut, quae tua potestas est, ea neges te me invito usurum, puero quoque hoc a me dabis

For since you are asking this of me, denying yourself to do what is in your power with me being unwilling, you will grant it to the boy as well on my part.

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 16.16:

cum tota potestas eius rei tua sit

as the situation is wholly under your control

• δʹ prep. Brutus and Cassius, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 11.2:

cum ipsi in tua potestate fuerimus

when we ourselves are in your power

• εʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.39:

est igitur in tua potestate, ut ille in me satis sibi praesidii putet esse.

So it's in your hands to make him consider me good enough protection for him.

• στʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.6a:

id facies, si omne genus liberalitatis, quod et ab humanitate et a potestate tua proficisci poterit, non modo re, sed etiam verbis, vultu denique exprompseris.

You'll do it if you can show all the generosity that can come both from your humanity and from your authority, not just in material things but also in words and even your expression.

• ζʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.7:

etsi non sum nescius, et quae temporum ratio et quae tua potestas sit, tibique negotium datum esse a C. Caesare, non iudicium, praeclare intellego

I am not unaware, though, both of the circumstances and of what you have control over, and I very clearly understand that the business that was given to you by Gaius Caesar is not that of a judge.

• ηʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.73:

etiam atque etiam peto ut eius filios, qui in tua potestate sunt, mihi potissimum condones

Again and again I beg you, for my sake especially, to give up his sons, who are in your power.

• θʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 15.13:

nunc, cum tua summa potestas summaque auctoritas, notaque omnibus nostra necessitudo sit, vehementer te rogo

Now, as the highest power and the highest authority are yours, and our relationship is known to everybody, I earnestly ask you