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Furthermore, that same friend of mine used to say that in the oration of that same Marcus Tullius On Pompey's Military Command § 33. Cicero wrote the following, and so my friend always read it: Since you know that your harbours, and those harbours from which you draw the breath of life, were in tile power of the pirates. And he declared that in potestatem fuisse That is, for in potestate. was not a solecism, as the half-educated vulgar think, but he maintained that it was used in accordance with a definite and correct principle, one which the Greeks also followed; and Plautus, who is most choice in his Latinity, said in the Amphitruo: v. 180. Leo reads num número mi in mentém fruit it hasn't just occurred to me, has it? Número mihi in mentém fuit, not in mente, as we commonly say.
