ABILITY Copy link • ABILITYpower, potentia (absolute power): potestas (power derived from legal authority): copia (possibility of doing anything with convenience): facultas (capacity; possibility subjectively). Mental power, ingenium (connate mental power, talents, genius): sollertia (menta. dexterity, practical genius): docilitas (power of learning, of improving): ingenu facultas (talent for a particular pur suit, not talents coliectively, which is ingenium): facultas with genitive (power to do anything, e.g., to speak, dicendi). I do not give him credit for ability to accomplish something, aliquem aliquid efficere non posse duco (after Nep., Alcib., 7, 2). Abilities, mental powers collectively; ingenium, facultates (Cic., de Invent., 1, 27, quite at the end); animi vis, virtus, hominis sollertia. To cultivate one’s abilities, animum mentemque excolere: to be a person of considerable abilities, ingeniosum esse, ingenio abundare. Riches. Vid: