Note 29 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
Numen really means the manifestation of power, from nuere. Varro makes Attius say: "Multis nomen vestrum numenque ciendo." In Lucretius we have mentis numen, and also Numen Augusti. An inscription discovered by Mommsen runs as follows:
"P. Florus, etc. Dianae numine jussu posuit."