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  • Caption: Christicolae huc alacres concurrite saepe fideles: Hic deus in terris numinis alta subit.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • ‘Why, sir, Leibnitz persisted in affirming that Newton called space sensorium numinis, notwithstanding he was corrected, and desired to observe that Newton’s words were quasisensorium numinis.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • There is, apparently, the sensus numinis; the vague deity being known as

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Neque qualiter superstitionibus solent miseri homines captivam mentem addicere: sed quia non dubiam vim numinis illic sentimus vigere ac spirare, qua ad parendum, scientes so volentes, vividius tamen et efficacius quam pro humana aut voluntate aut scientia trahimur et accendimur ...

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Neque qualiter superstitionibus solent miseri homines captivam mentem addicere: sed quia non dubiam vim numinis illic sentimus vigere ac spirare, qua ad parendum, scientes so volentes, vividius tamen et efficacius quam pro humana aut voluntate aut scientia trahimur et accendimur ...

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • = The same favourable omen at _Met_ X 278-79 (Pygmalion has finished his prayer to Venus) 'amici numinis omen,/flamma ter accensa est apicemque per aera duxit'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Propertius (I ix 12, I xvii 28, III xvi 10): in Ovid it occurs elsewhere only at _Tr_ III vi 23 'numinis ut laesi fiat mansuetior ira' and _Ibis_

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • For a moment in the first book he flashes upon us in his full splendour (143): sed non in Caesare tantum nomen erat nec fama ducis: sed nescia virtus stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello. acer et indomitus, quo spes quoque ira vocasset. ferre manum et numquam temerando parcere ferro, successus urgere suos, instare fauori numinis, inpellens quidquid sibi summa petenti obstaret, gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Archilochus, whom he had killed (Plutarch, "De sera numinis vindicta", xvii).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • 'Why, Sir, Leibnitz persisted in affirming that Newton called space sensorium numinis, notwithstanding he was corrected, and desired to observe that Newton's words were QUASI sensorium numinis [780].

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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