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Other wider or narrower comparisons, such as Neptunus from _náp [= a] t ap [= a] m, _ seem to us too daring to be believed.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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There was also a Neptunus Rex certificate and I still have about 10 photos of the Neptunus Rex ceremony.
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TWIST AGAIN: Neptunus Lex reminds me that Dick Cavett criticized General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker for using high-falutin', specialized language when the latter two addressed a couple of senate committees last week--implying that the two were elitist.
April 2008 2008
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Neptunus Lex muses about who really wants the truth
In Exile 2006
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Neptunus Lex has yet another Return of the King review.
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Neptunus Lex has yet another Return of the King review.
December 2003 2003
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Neptunus, god of the ocean and the sea, to whom sailors addressed their prayers, and to whom commanders going out with fleets offered oblations.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Mopsus, the official prophet of the expedition, falls into a trance and beholds a vision of the future (211): heu quaenam aspicio! nostris modo concitus ausis aequoreos vocat ecce deos Neptunus et ingens concilium. fremere et legem defendere cuncti hortantur. sic amplexu, sic pectora fratris,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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PAENE insularum, Sirmio, insularumque ocelle, quascumque in liquentibus stagnis marique uasto fert uterque Neptunus; quam te libenter quamque laetus inuiso, uix mi ipse credens Thuniam atque Bithunos5 liquisse campos et uidere te in tuto.
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Hermes under the name of Mercurius, or Poseidon bearing the name of the old Roman water _numen_ Neptunus, or even of Asclepios with a Romanised name Aesculapius, would not be likely to affect greatly their ideas of the divine.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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