numen
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"Non numen habes si sit Prudentia,—eh, O'Kelly?" said Conway.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
O quæ frondosæ per amœna cubilia silvæ Nympha volas, lucoque loquax spatiaris in alto, Annosi numen nemoris, saltusque verendi Effatum, cui sola placent postrema relatus!
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
The word thus gradually lost its original meaning; the nameless local genii became an expression for the universality of the divinum numen and were sometimes identified with the higher gods.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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
Ac sacram resonare viam mugitibus, ante Delubrum Rom�; colitur nam sanguine et ipsa More de�, nomenque loci, ceu numen, habetur.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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