Note 047
In the Latin writers, at least of the silver
age, the title of Potestas was transferred from the office
to the magistrate:
Hujus qui trahitur praetextam sumere
mavis;
An Fidenarum Gabiorumque esse Potestas.
Juvenal. Satir. x. 99.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 69