Potestas

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Potestas is the executive power of a Roman [[Magistracies (Nova Roma)|magistrate]].
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"''Potestas'' signifies generally a power or faculty of any kind by which we do any thing."<ref name=smith>Long, G. (1875) in William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Patria_Potestas.html]</ref>
  
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==Magistrates==
  
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''Potestas'' is the executive power of a Roman [[Magistracies (Nova Roma)|magistrate]]. Tribunes of the plebs possessed ''[[tribunicia potestas]]''.
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==Private persons==
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==References==
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"Potestas signifies generally a power or faculty of any kind by which we do any thing."[1]


Magistrates

Potestas is the executive power of a Roman magistrate. Tribunes of the plebs possessed tribunicia potestas.

Private persons

References

  1. Long, G. (1875) in William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. [1]

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