[843] Scipiadas G. 2. 170 note. ‘Parvo potentem’ is rightly taken by Forb. as virtually = “parvo opulentum,” —a sense of ‘potens’ for which he refers to Hor. 2 Od. 18. 12 “nec potentem amicum Largiora flagito,” Phaed. 1. 24. 1 “Inops potentem dum vult imitari, perit.” Comp. 12. 519. Cerda well refers to the language of Valerius Maximus 4. 3. about Fabricius, “Continentiae suae beneficio sine pecunia praedives, sine usu familiae abunde comitatus; quia locupletem illum faciebat non multa possidere sed modica desiderare.” For the construction comp. 7. 56, “Turnus avis atavisque potens.”
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