Potior, potîris, pen. pro potitus sum vel fui potíri, Potis deducitur. To haue in possession: to obtaine: to enioye, or take fruition & cõmoditie of: to win: to conquer: to atchieue. Apud poetas in quibuidam personis interdum inuenitur tertiæ coniugationis.Virg. Fas omne abrumpit. & auro vi potitur. Tenere & potiri. Cic. Genitiuo aliquando iungitur: vt potiri hostium. Plau. To subdue, conquere or get the vpper hand of his enimies.Cui fatum foret vrbis potiri. Salust Whose destinie it was to winne or conquere the citie, or to be lord of it.Potiri voluptatum.Cicer.To attaine pleasure: to haue the fruition of pleasures.Atheniensium potiti sunt Spartiatæ. Author ad Here. The Lacedemonians subdued the Atheniaus.Potiri regni.Cic.To win a countrie, and become lord of it.Potiri rerum. Ci. To be king and maister of all: to be chief ruler and gouernour. Dominari, & rerum potiri. Cic. Accusatiuo. Plautus, Fortiter malum qui patitur, idÊ pòst potitur bonum. He that suffereth and manfully indureth sorrow, doth afterwarde get good and commoditie.Laborem potiri. Plau. To suffer and indure labour & pain.Miseriam omnem capio, hic potitus gaudia.Terent.I take al the paine, and he hath al the ioy and pleasure. Ablatiuo.To obtaine or get by labor. Cicero. Qui bello potiti sunt. Whiche haue wonne it at the swordes point.Præsentibus ita potitur, vt animaduertat quanta sint ea, quamque iucunda.Cic.He doth so enioy, and take fruition of things present, that, &c.Amore potiri Ouid.Auso potiri.Virg.To atchieue and bring to passe an hardie enterprise.Corpore & armis potiri.Virg.Potitur capta domo. Ou. He inioyeth % house that hee tooke.Gaza omai Macedonum potitus est Paulus. Cice. Pauluswanne by conquest of the treasure, &c.Lachrymis alicuius potiri.Stat.Optatis potitur.Val. Flac.He hath or enioyeth his desire.Sceptris potiri.Virg.To be king.Spolijs potiri.Virg.Thalamis petitis potiri.Ouid.Vellere Graio vi potitur.Val. Flac.He winneth by force the golden fleece. Voto potiri.Ouid.To haue his destre. Potior, in præsenti tempore, plerumq; pro Fruor.Cic.To enioy. Quòd si istis ipsis voluptatibus bona ætas fruitur, libentius primùm paruulis fruitur rebus, vt diximus: deinde ijs quibus senectus, etiam si non abundè potitur, nõ omnino caret. Pro eodem posuit Fruitur & potitur.