[123] Numina, ‘will.’ Perhaps there is a reference to its original sense of “nutus,” so that ‘quae sint numina’ may be equivalent to “quem di innuant.” Such at any rate must be the general meaning, the question being to whom the oracle pointed. See on 1. 133. Lachmann's denial (on Lucr. 2.632, where he reads ‘momine’ for the ‘numine’ of the MSS.) that ‘numen’ can ever = ‘nutus,’ is contradicted, I think, by Catull. 62 (64). 204, “Adnuit invicto caelestum numine rector, Quo tunc et tellus atque horrida contremuerunt Aequora.” (And so Prof. Munro.)
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