numen

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Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia; nos te, 20 nos facimus, Fortuna, deam caeloque locamus.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

G ood is quað Joseph to dremen of win. heilnesse an blisse is ðer in. ðre daies ben get for to cumen. ðu salt ben ut of prisun numen.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph

"And don't I say, as the ould heathen philosopher did of fortune, 'Nullum numen habes, si sit prudentia'?"

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

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)

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.