Vocative of Deus...?

[adrianus]

@timeodanaos

I have never seen deus used in the vocative or ‘vocatively’ in classical Latin. The name of the god, a quality, or perhaps dive, but deus used as a vocative, that’s Christian.

Minimé. Et classicé exstat dei nomen vocativo casu.
Not at all. Even classically the vocative of “deus” makes good sense.

@Georgius Helmreich

Et, o bone deus, hi sunt ipsi, qui imputant suam culpam medicamentis quasi nihil proficientibus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribonius_Largus

@Carmina Priapea

Laetus Aristagoras natis bene vilicus uvis de cera facta dat tibi poma, deus.

Vide http://www.jstor.org/pss/270330