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.

"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

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

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

The word thus gradually lost its original meaning; the nameless local genii became an expression for the universality of the divinum numen and were sometimes identified with the higher gods.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various