numen
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"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
Nuere should therefore express a simple exercise of will-power, and numen is the being119 exercising it.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
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
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.
Ergo, Amor, i, morere; i, magnas, Puer alme, per umbras5 Elysiis non tam numen inane locis.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard