numen

Nuere should therefore express a simple exercise of will-power, and numen is the being119 exercising it.

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 notion of the numen is always vague and indefinite: even its sex may be uncertain.

The populus was the tree of Hercules, and the plane-tree was the “numen of Atridæ.”