Unius potestas

Latin Construction

unius potestas. fem.

1. ‘One [man]'s power.’

Constructions

Preposition constructions

• in unius potestate — Cic. [βʹ], [γʹ]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 8.3:

Si maneo et illum comitatum optimorum et clarissimorum civium desero, cadendum est in unius potestatem.

If I stay and desert that companionship of the best and brightest citizens, it will fall into the power of one man.

• βʹ prep. Pollio, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 10.31:

Ita, si id agitur ut rursus in potestate omnia unius sint, quicumque is est, ei me profiteor inimicum.

So if what they're driving at is for everything to be under one man's power again, I promise I will be that man's enemy, whoever he is.

• γʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.19:

quod in unius potestate erant omnia

because everything was under the power of one man