numen
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Saturnius me sic infixit Jupiter, Jovisque numen Mulcibri adscivit manus.
Great they knew was “Jupiter Best and Greatest” of conquering Rome; and great the numen of the Cæsar, to which everywhere in this rich and servile province shrines were rising.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
There is the famous Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia: nos te, Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam, taken by Juvenal from the Greek.
From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert
Ibidem vates ille deos, qui portiones suas accipiendi gratia advenerant, apprecatus, En inquit, hicce ex Dasarathus filiorum desiderio castimoniis adstrictus, fidei plenus, vestrum numen adoravit sacrificio equino.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Ergo, Amor, i, morere; i, magnas, Puer alme, per umbras5 Elysiis non tam numen inane locis.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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