26 examples of potestas in sentences

99-102): "Huius qui trahitur praetextam sumere mavis, An Fidenarum Gabiorumque esse potestas Et de mensura ius dicere, vasa minora Frangere, pannosus vacuis Aedilis Ulubris?" Cf.

On the island was the palace, glittering with gilt and marble, gay with colored awnings, where kings had lived magnificently until Romans saved the city from them, substituting a proconsular paternal kind of tyranny originating in the Roman patria potestas.

Thus this patria potestas was gradually relaxed as civilization advanced, though it remained a peculiarity of Roman law to the latest times, and was severer than is ever seen in the modern world.

Peragit tranquilla potestas, Quod violenta nequit.

Nihil aliud potestas culminis, quam tempestas mentis, as Gregory seconds him; sovereignty is a tempest of the soul: Sylla like they have brave titles, but terrible fits: splendorem titulo, cruciatum animo: which made Demosthenes vow, si vel ad tribunal, vel ad interitum duceretur: if to be a judge, or to be condemned, were put to his choice, he would be condemned.

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

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."

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

Peragit tranquilla potestas.

But according to Grotius, a king waging war against the lawful copartners of the 'summa potestas' ceases to be their king, and if conquered forfeits to them his former share.

* * * 'Potestas clavium' was committed to them only, not to the Seventy.

Avignon added to her consuls two podestats (from the Latin potestas, power).

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

Close by to our left is the round temple of Vesta, where the sacred fire of the State is kept ever burning by its guardians, the Vestal Virgins, and here too is their dwelling, the Atrium Vestae, and also that of the Pontifex Maximus (Regia), in whose potestas they were; these three buildings, then insignificant to look at, constituted the religious focus of the oldest Rome.

Marriages cum manu became unusual: the wife remained in the potestas of her father, who in most cases, doubtless, ceased to trouble himself about her, and as her property did not pass to her husband, she could not but obtain a new position of independence.

Nidla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit.

Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: Dismas et Gesmas, media est Divina Potestas; Alta petit Dismas, infelix infima Gesmas; Nos et res nostras conservet Summa Potestas.

Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: Dismas et Gesmas, media est Divina Potestas; Alta petit Dismas, infelix infima Gesmas; Nos et res nostras conservet Summa Potestas.

The power of the father was called potestas; that of the husband, manus.

The paternal authority approaches the patria potestas of the ancient Aryan nations.

"Non datur nobis potestas adeundi templum nisi nudibus pedibus.

The ancient morality, which was the product of the patriarchal form of society, when the patria potestas was still in vigour, laid peculiar stress on the duties of children to parents, while it almost ignored the reciprocal duties of parents to children.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1753 Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit.

The name is Italianised from the Roman Potestas Hajus, quo trahitur, praetextam sumere mavis, An Fidenarum, Gabiorumque esse Potestas.

The name is Italianised from the Roman Potestas Hajus, quo trahitur, praetextam sumere mavis, An Fidenarum, Gabiorumque esse Potestas.

26 examples of  potestas  in sentences