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Another of the oaths prescribed by command of Caligula was “per numen Drusillæ.”

The populus was the tree of Hercules, and the plane-tree was the “numen of Atridæ.”

Nil praeter nubes et coeli numen adorant.They worship clouds and firmament alone.

At id neque fleri potest, neque Christi sanctissimum numen approbat.

The universe is directed by a ‘vis animae divina’ or ‘divinum numen’ (i. 250, 491).

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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