Potestas is a Latin word meaning power or faculty. It is an important concept in Roman Law. The idea of potestas originally referred to the power, through...

death (vitae necisque potestas). He was also obliged to observe the constraints imposed by Roman custom and law on all potestas. His decisions should...

"scientia potestas est") is a Latin aphorism meaning "knowledge is power", commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon. The expression "ipsa scientia potestas est"...

Allia Potestas was a freedwoman from the Roman town of Perugia who lived sometime during the 1st–4th centuries AD. She is known only through her epitaph...

Summa potestas is a Latin phrase meaning "highest authority" or "totality of power". It refers to the final authority of power in government. For example...

Because they were not technically magistrates, and thus possessed no maior potestas, they relied on their sacrosanctity to obstruct actions unfavourable to...

currently in use throughout Italy). The term derives from the Latin word potestas ('power'). There is a similar derivation for the Arabic term سلطان sulṭān...

Rome was primarily a legal procedure for transferring paternal power (potestas) to ensure succession in the male line within Roman patriarchal society...

and the "royal power" (regalis potestas). These two principles—auctoritas lending justification to potestas, and potestas providing the executive strength...

(auctoritas patrum) was connected to auctoritas—not to be confused with potestas or imperium, which were held by the magistrates or the people.[citation...