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omnĭpŏtens , ntis, adj. omnis-potens,
I.all-powerful, almighty, omnipotent (poet. and in post-class. prose), Enn. ap. Non. 111, 15 (Trag. v. 202 Vahl.): Juppiter, id. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 254 (Ann. v. 446 Vahl.); Cat. 64, 171: “pater,Ov. M. 1, 154.—Absol.: “arcuit omnipotens,Ov. M. 2, 505; so, “annuit omnipotens,id. ib. 14, 816: Neptunus, Turp. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 34, 73: “regina,” i. e. Juno, Val. Fl. 1, 81: “fortuna,Verg. A. 8, 334: “Juppiter,Val. Max. 1, 6, 12 init.—Comp.: “nam si ideo omnipotens Pater, qui Filium habet, omnipotentior ergo esse potuit, si plures haberet,Ambros. Fide, 4, 8, § 85.— Sup.: “deus ille omnipotentissimus,Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 17 med.; Aug. Conf. 1, 4: creator, id. Civ. Dei, 21, 9.—Very freq. in eccl. Lat., with Dominus, Deus, etc.; and as subst.: Omnĭpŏtens , ntis, m., the Almighty: “Omnipotens nomen ejus,Vulg. Exod. 15, 3: nec Omnipotens subvertet judicium, id. Job, 34, 12.—Hence, adv.: om-nĭpŏtenter , almightily, omnipotently, Aug. Civ. Dei, 14, 27 init.
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