numen

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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)

Vale, virorum ornatissime, neque dedigneris quod colere audeam Genii tui serenitatem supplex tam tenuis, et, quoniam numen quoque hoc de se non negat, amare etiam.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

"A Victorio Alferio … ultra res omnes dilecta, et quasi mortale numen ab ipso constanter habita et observata."

From The Countess of Albany by Lee, Vernon

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.

Wel fagen he was of here come for he was numen ðor to nome.

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