numen
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O Christe, numen unicum ut discrepantum gentium O splendor, O virtus Patris, mores et observantiam, O factor orbis et poli, linguas et ingenia et sacra, atque auctor horum moenium! unis domares legibus.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles
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
Nuere should therefore express a simple exercise of will-power, and numen is the being119 exercising it.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
Wel michil sorge is me bi cumen. ðat min two childre aren me for numen.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
Another of the oaths prescribed by command of Caligula was “per numen Drusillæ.”
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian
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