numen
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Nullum numen adest si sit Prudentia," though, as Addison observes, "this sort of discretion has no place in private conversation between intimate friends.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
Est aqua Mercurii port� vicina Capen�; Si juvat expertis credere, numen habet.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Hither Numa came to visit the forest-gods Faunus and Picus at their sacred fountain: Lucus Aventino suberat niger ilicis umbra, Quo posses viso dicere, numen inest.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
The only certain result that we can win from the study of these adjectival titles is that they represent a transition between animism and polytheism, a transition exactly expressed by the one word numen.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
But then, Nullum numen abest, si sit Prudentia.
From A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh by Defoe, Daniel
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