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δαιμόνιον , τό,
A.divine Power, Divinity, Hdt.5.87, E.Ba.894 (lyr.), Isoc.1.13, Pl.R.382e, etc.; “τὸ δαιμόνιον ἄρ᾽ ἢ θεὸς ἢ θεοῦ ἔργον” Arist. Rh.1398a15, cf. 1419a9; “οἱ θεοὶ εἴσονται καὶ τὸ δ.” D.19.239; φοβεῖσθαι μή τι δ. πράγματ᾽ ἐλαύνῃ some fatality, Id.9.54; τὰ τοῦ δ. the favours of forlune, Pl.Epin.992d.
II. inferior divine being, “μεταξὺ θεοῦ τε καὶ θνητοῦ” Id.Smp.202e; “καινὰ δ. εἰσφέρειν” X.Mem.1.1.2, Pl. Ap.24c, cf. Vett. Val.67.5, etc.; applied to the 'genius' of Socrates, X.Mem.1.1.2, Pl.Ap.40a, Tht.151a, Euthphr.3b.
2. evil spirit, “δ. φαῦλα” Chrysipp.Stoic.2.338, cf. LXXDe.32.17, To.3.8, Ev.Matt.7.22, al., PMag.Lond.1.46.120 (iv A. D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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