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Ancient Roman cult
According to Georges Dumézil: "The literal meaning is simply &quot;a nod,&quot; or more accurately, for it is a passive formation, &quot;that which is produced by nodding&quot;, just as flamen is &quot;that which is produced by blowing,&quot; i.e., a gust of wind. It came to mean &quot;the product or expression of power&quot;--not, be it noted, power itself." Thus, numen is not personified (although it can be a personal attribute) and should be distinguished from deus (god).

Imperial cult
The cult of Augustus was promoted by Tiberius, who dedicated the Ara Numinis Augusti. In this context, a distinction can be made between the terms numen and genius.

Christian religion
The phrase &quot;numen eris caeloque redux mirabere regna&quot; appears on line 129 of the poem Metrum in Genesin, attributed to Hilary of Arles.

Usage
Cicero uses the term to signify the &quot;active power&quot; of a Roman god. Virgil uses the plural form of numen in the Aeneid: magna numina precari, translated as &quot;prayed to the great gods&quot;. By simulacra numinum the historian Tacitus refers to the &quot;statues of the active powers&quot;. Pliny the younger speaks of the numen historiae to mean the divine power of history. Lucretius uses the expression numen mentis, or &quot;bidding of the mind&quot;. .

The expression Numen inest appears in Ovid's Fasti (III, 296) and has been translated as &apos;There is a spirit here&apos;. Its interpretation, and in particular the exact sense of numen has been discussed extensively in the literature.

In modern times, the term (referring to the Christian God) has been used in various expressions:


 * Innocue vivito, numen adest (Live blameless; God is here.) was the motto of Linnaeus, taken from Ovid's Ars Amatoria (I, 640).
 * Nil sine numine is the state motto of Colorado. Its origin could be the phrase "...non haec sine numine devum eveniunt", from Virgil's Aeneid (II, 777).
 * Numen lumen (God is the light) is the motto of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

More recently, the term numen appears three times (142.23, 162.13, 282.21) in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

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