Deorum

Natura Deorum is the best clew we have to guide us through the dark and profound abyss.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The phrase "Deorum" or "Divum deus" is indeed remarkable, and unparalleled in Roman worship; but no one acquainted with Roman or Italian ritual will for a moment suspect it of meaning "God of gods" in either a Christian or metaphysical sense.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Paley in turn swiped it from Cicero's "De Natura Deorum" ( "The Nature of the Gods"), where it was used to support the existence of an entirely different set of gods.

Barrett Brown: Intelligent Design, Online Edition 2009

A concilia Deorum rejectus et ad majorem ejus ignominiam,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Xenophon, in Cyropaed. graces it with a great name, Deorum munus, the gift of the gods, a princely sport, which they have ever used, saith Langius, epist.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Otherwise thus, [4638] Vulcan met two lovers, and bid them ask what they would and they should have it; but they made answer, O Vulcane faber Deorum, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The carrying about of images in procession is another relic of the religion of the Greeks and Romans, for they also carried their idols from place to place, in a kind of chariot, which was peculiarly dedicated to that use, which the Latins called thensa, and vehiculum Deorum; and the image was placed in a frame, or shrine, which they called ferculum.

Leviathan 2007

Parcus Deorum cultor you bowed not often, it may be, in the temples of the state religion and before the statues of the great Olympians; but the pure and pious worship of rustic tradition, the faith handed down by the homely elders, with that you never broke.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

‘He speaks of his returning to it, in his Ode Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens.’

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

But that graue auncient writer, Cornelius Tacitus, hath a wise, briefe, pithy saying, and it is this: “Nemo tentauit inquirere in columnas Herculis, sancti鷖que ac reuerentius habitum est de factis Deorum credere, qu鄊 scire.”

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003