Omnisque potestas impatiens consortis erit: "they are still suspicious, lest their authority should be diminished," as one observes; and as Comineus hath it, "it cannot be expressed what slender causes they have of their grief and suspicion, a secret disease, that commonly lurks and breeds in princes' families."

"nihil est quod credere de se Non audet quum laudatur diis aequa potestas.

Sapientes liberi, stulti servi, libertas est potestas, &c. 450.

He is powerless to grant Cybele's prayer that the ships may escape decay: Cui tanta deo permissa potestas?