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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• power:
    1. I. Strength:
      1. 1. vis, vīres: v. strength.
      2. 2. pŏtentia (poet. in this sense): the p. of the sun., p. solis, Virg. G. 1, 92.
    2. II. Ability: chiefly in such phrr. as with all one's p., summa ope, vi, etc.: v. might (subs.): also, infr. III., fin.
    3. III. Control, dominion:
      1. 1. pŏtestas (esp. as conferred or allowed by the laws): he has p. of life and death over his subjects, vitae necisque in suos habet p., Caes. B. G. 1, 16: to keep in one's p., in potestate habere., Liv. 8, 15. Join: jus potestatemque [habere], Cic. Ph. 11, 12, 30. Freq., of power acquired by conquest or treaty: to reduce under the p. of the Athenians, sub p. Atheniensium redigere, Nep. Milt. 1: Cic. Join: potestas ac ditio, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 38, 97: in (alicujus) fidem ac p. [venire], Caes. B. G. 2, 13. (N.B.--To express under any one's p., the form in potestatem is frequent, instead of in potestate: cf. Cic. Leg. 3, 17, init., respublica quae est in potestatem optimorum: also, Liv. 24, 1, extr.: so, in amicitiam P. R. ditionemque esse, Cic. Div. Verr. 20, 66.)
      2. 2. jus, jūris, n. (rightful authority to do anything): without the sanction of the people, the consul has no p. to do any of those things, sine populi jussu nullius earum rerum jus est, Sall. Cat. 29, extr.: the paternal p., j. patrium, Liv. 1, 26 (oftener, patria potestas): cf. supr. (1).; and v. right (subs.).
      3. 3. dĭtio, ōnis (dominion): he reduced (the country) under his p., suae ditionis fecit, Liv. 21, 53, med.: Curt. Esp. joined with a syn.: e. g. in ditionem potestatemque P. R. redigere, Caes. B. G. 2, 34; in jus ditionemque recipere, Liv. 21, 61, med.: sub alicujus ditione atque imperio esse, Caes. B. G. 1, 31.
      4. 4. impĕrium (supreme authority): v. authority.
      5. 5. pŏtentia (unconstitutional influence and ascendancy; opp. to potestas, v. supr.): this is the only kind of influence and p. they know, hanc unam gratiam p.que noverunt, Caes. B. G. 6, 15: v. predominance.
      6. 6. summa (entire disposal): when the supreme p. in a state is in the hands of one, quum penes unum est omnium summa rerum, Cic. Rep. 1, 26: so, summa totius belli, Caes. B. G. 2, 4. Phr.: these things are not in our p., haec non sunt in nostra manu, Cic. Fam. 14, 2: Sall.: as far as in our p., quantum in nobis est, Liv.: to have great p., multum posse, Caes. B. G. 6, 30: Cic.: also, multum valere, Caes. B. G. 2, 4: more fully, opibus, armis, potentia valere, Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 6.
    4. IV. In pl., the p.s of the mind: opes ingeni (ingenii), Sall. Cat. 1; vires ingenii, Cic. Sen. 10, 33. Also freq. ingenium alone: to have admirable p.s of mind, praeclaro, divino ingenio esse: v. mind, genius.