Reason and good sense tell us that the real origin of this wonderful phenomenon is not to be found there, and that we must seek elsewhere for the causes which have contributed to produce it.
Our hearts swell with generous indignation, when we hear the religion of Jesus Christ reproached with a tendency towards oppression.
Deorum munus, the gift of the gods, a princely sport, which they have ever used, saith Langius, epist.
Si se occidendos certis verbis quodam modo consecrantes Decii devoverunt, ut illis cadentibus et iram deorum sanguine suo placantibus Romanus liberaretur exercitus," and goes on to compare the Decii with Christian martyrs.
This last is quoted from Trebatius de religionibus: "sacrum est quicquid est quod deorum habetur.
In this passage the Epicurean is described as "nihil tam verens quam ne dubitare aliqua de re videretur, tanquam modo exdeorum concilio et ex Epicuri intermundiis descendisset.
It is the instrument of society; therefore Mercury, who is the president of language, is calleddeorum hominumque interpres.
The De Natura Deorum is followed by two books, De Divinatione, and by the fragment of one, De Fato.
The happy man who first thought to put the De Natura Deorum and the De Amicitia into boards together, and to present them to the world under the name of his philosophy, perhaps found the only title that could unite the two.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deorum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
