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His favorite oath is retained, and a slight mention is made of the daemonium, or internal sign, which is alluded to by Socrates as a phenomenon peculiar to himself.
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Vulgate, in agreement with the Greek, has daemonium, our vernacular versions read devil.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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But there is no reason to suppose that he is deriding them, any more than he is deriding the phenomena of love or of enthusiasm in the Symposium, or of oracles in the Apology, or of divine intimations when he is speaking of the daemonium of Socrates.
Meno 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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His favorite oath is retained, and a slight mention is made of the daemonium, or internal sign, which is alluded to by Socrates as
The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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We read of a daemonium meridianum, though the sun, we know, is then highest, and the light greatest.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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Milton used the Greek prefix "pan" or "all" (as in pantheism) with the Latin daemonium, or demon.
ABP News 2010
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