Potentia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Pŏtentĭa, ae, f.

I A town in Picenum , now S. Maria di Potenza , Liv. 39, 44; Cic. Har. Resp. 28, 62; Plin. 3, 13, 18, § 111.—Hence,

B Pŏtentīnus , a, um, adj., Potentian : ager, Front. Colon. p. 123 Goes.—

II A town in Lucania , now Potenza; hence, Pŏtentīni , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Potentia , in Lucania , Plin. 3, 11, 15, § 98.

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