numen

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Hither Numa came to visit the forest-gods Faunus and Picus at their sacred fountain: Lucus Aventino suberat niger ilicis umbra, Quo posses viso dicere, numen inest.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

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)

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

I laughingly observed, that the "Nullum numen abest" had been honoured with an unexpected illustration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

Quod si ea ficta credimus licentia fabularum, Mopsum, Tiresiam, 5 Amphiaraum, Calchantem, Helenum, quos tamen augures ne ipsae quidem fabulae adscivissent, si res omnino repudiaret, ne domesticis quidem exemplis docti numen deorum conprobabimus?

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund