The corpus record — Latin

impotentia

impotentia · f

Inability

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Where it lives

Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 2 · 0.93/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

impŏtentĭa — Lewis & Short

impŏtentĭa (inp-), ae, f.impotens. *

I Inability, want of wealth, poverty: magis propter suam impotentiam se semper credunt neglegi, Ter. Ad. 4, 3, 16.—

II Want of moderation or self-restraint, ungovernableness, passionate behavior, violence, fury (freq. and class.): impotentia quaedam animi a temperantia et moderatione plurimum dissidens, Cic. Tusc. 4, 15, 34; Poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 35: impotentia commotus animi, Sisenn. ap. Non. 527, 14: numquam potentia sua ad impotentiam usus, Vell. 2, 29: impotentiae exprobratio, Quint. 6, 2, 16: muliebris, Liv. 34, 2, 2; Tac. A. 1, 4; 12, 57: veteranorum, id. ib. 14, 31: nullius astri Gregem aestuosa torret impotentia, fiery violence, Hor. Epod. 16, 62.

In the wild

inpotentiae Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.1.pr
inpotentiam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.8.6
inpotentiam Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 9.2
inpotentiae Suetonius, Divus Julius 77.1
inpotentiam Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.3.3
inpotentiam Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.17.23.1

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Where it came from

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