Whereas all religion was public in Athens, Socrates seemed to enjoy a peculiar kind of private piety, relying on what he called his "daimonion", his "inner voice". ❋ Bettany Hughes (2010)
I, i, ix; Plutarch, "Marc.", xxiii), and a similar meaning is conveyed by the Gospel phrase daimonion echein, when the Pharisees use it of Christ (Matt., xi, 18; ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
I am suspicious of the Socrates who believed in an invisible spirit – a daimonion – that whispered in his head. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There were spirits (in Greek daimones) and spiritual beings like Socrates's mysterious voice (daimonion) (Apology, 31d1-4, 40a2-c3). ❋ Hare, John (2006)
Evidence for irreverence was of two types: Socrates did not believe in the gods of the Athenians (indeed, he had said on many occasions that the gods do not lie or do other wicked things, whereas the Olympian gods of the poets and the city were quarrelsome and vindictive); Socrates introduced new divinities (indeed, he insisted that his daimonion had spoken to him since childhood). ❋ Nails, Debra (2005)
That's why poetry is rightly said to be dictated by a daimonion, though its an exaggeration to maintain that he must be an angel. ❋ M-mv (2005)
Socrates also acknowledged a rather strange personal phenomenon, a daimonion or internal voice that prohibited his doing certain things, some trivial and some important, but none related to matters of right and wrong (thus not to be confused with the popular notions of a superego or a conscience); the implication that he was guided by something he regarded as divine or semi-divine was suspect to other Athenians. ❋ Nails, Debra (2005)
And I say too, that every wise man who happens to be a good man is more than human (daimonion) both in life and death, and is rightly called a demon. ❋ Plato (1975)
In the Septuagint (200-100), the Greek angelos translates mal'ak, while daimon (or neuter daimonion) with the meaning “a spirit less than divine” translates the Hebrew for idols, alien gods, some hostile natural creatures, and natural evils, and theos is used for the one God. ❋ HELEN P. TRIMPI (1968)
Demons had no bodies, as we learn from the ουκ ειμι δαιμονιον ασωματον {ouk eimi daimonion asômaton} of a well-known passage in a New Testament manuscript. ❋ Various (N/A)
He points to the fact that both Plato and Xenophon use the form daimonion, which ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Among the many miracles recorded in the synoptic Gospels, special prominence is given to the casting out of devils or demons (daimon, daimonion). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
"He hath a devil, and is mad" (daimonion echei, kai mainetai); daimonan, however, is not the word used by the sacred writers. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Mt. 9: 34 en to archonti ton daimonion ekballei ta daimonia. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)
But in his spiritual life there was certainly one point, but only one, on which he deviated from the normal, namely, his _daimonion_. ❋ Ingeborg Andersen (1897)
Socrates himself say that the power of avoiding what would harm him, in great things and little, by virtue of a direct perception (a “voice”), which is what constituted his _daimonion_, was given him from childhood. ❋ Ingeborg Andersen (1897)
What his accusers alluded to was the _daimonion_ of Socrates. ❋ Ingeborg Andersen (1897)
Here the Greek maxim comes in, [Greek: tima tho daimonion katha tha patria], "honour the Deity after the fashion of thy country." ❋ Joseph Rickaby (1888)
In all these places the Greek term is demon (daimonion), not devil (diabolos). ❋ Unknown (1886)
A [Demon]"Daimonion &[quot];dahee-mon'-ee-on"" ❋ Thesaint22 (2012)
