potior

And shouldn't the principle of Lectio difficilior potior favor the latter?

languagehat.com: TERAZIJE. 2004

"Militia est potior," I said, capping his tag from Flaccus 'first satire, without reflecting whereto he was luring me.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

= For _potior_ 'more important' compare Caesar _BC_ I 8 (a reported remark of Pompey) 'semper se rei publicae commoda priuatis necessitudinibus habuisse _potiora_', Livy

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

We have here to observe the varying construction of _potior_.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

Gerundive construction; but ūtor, fruor, fungor, potior (originally transitive) regularly admit it; as, -- hostēs in spem potiundōrum castrōrum vēnerant, _the enemy had conceived the hope of gaining possession of the camp_.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

The usage belongs to prose: Ovid elsewhere and Virgil always use _potior_ to mean either

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Notice that _útor_ governs the same case as _véscor_ and _potior_.

Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

Where rank is equal it is determined by priority of foundation: Qui prior est tempore, potior est jure (Regula juris 54, in VI).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Their agreement with her is a manifest fact by reason of the position which she holds among them ( "for with this Church on account of its potior principalitas the whole Church, that is, the faithful from every quarter, must needs agree", etc.).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Victor; (d) at the end of the celebrated appeal to the potior principalitas of the Roman Church.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913