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  • It is the instrument of society; therefore Mercury, who is the president of language, is called deorum hominumque interpres.

    Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605

  • His knowledge about ancient skepticism probably was limited to the discussion of a more moderate skeptical tradition, Academic skepticism, by the Roman orator and philosopher Cicero, whose Academica and De natura deorum, expressed skeptical opinions; possibly he knew the information about Pyrrho of Elis and other skeptics in

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • De nat. deorum consolatur afflictos, deducit perterritos a timore, cupiditates imprimis, et iracundias comprimit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The Leucadians, as Strabo writes, sacrificed every year a man, averruncandae, deorum irae, causa, to pacify their gods, de montis praecipitio dejecerent, &c. and they did voluntarily undergo it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • O fortunatissime deorum Mars qui propter hanc vinctus fuisti.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ideo Lycurgus, &c. non quod ipse superstitiosus, sed quod videret mortales paradoxa facilius amplecti, nec res graves audere sine periculo deorum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The same as all antiquity attached to it: “Finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Primum locum apud omnes gentes habet patritius deorum cultus, et geniorum, nam hunc diutissime custodiunt, tam Graeci quam Barbari, &c. 2046.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The title of “Deus Optimus Maximus” was never given by the Romans to any but “Jupiter, hominum sator atque deorum.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • [3377] Somne quies rerum, placidissime somne deorum, Pax animi, quem cura fugit, qui corpora duris

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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