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The translation has often given cause for dispute, as 'numen' is a word that may be translated as vague-sounding Providence, as a rather non-commital Deity or as the strict and fierce monotheistic God.— WordPress.com Top Blogs
[224] The only certain result that we can win from the study of these adjectival titles is that they represent a transition between animism and polytheism, a transition exactly expressed by the one word numen Numen is so important a word in the Roman religion that it is necessary to be perfectly clear as to what was meant by it.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Nuere should therefore express a simple exercise of will-power, and numen is the being exercising it.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
[240] Does the existence of such priests come into relation with the development of the idea of a deus out of a numen or a spirit?— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
I do not say that he or any other numen was the better for the change.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

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