bonus daemon

Latin noun
calqued from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-01
Primary meaning place of the good daemon
Literal translation good daemon
Variants
bonus daemon
bonus genius
Edited by

place of the good daemon astrological place

11th astrological place

Bonus vero Daemon in diametro huius signi collocatur, id est in XI. ab horoscopo loco;

‘The Bonus Daemon is located diametrically opposite this house, that is, in the eleventh house from the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.16.2

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.59

Appellatur autem hic locus a nobis Bonus Daemon vel Bonus Genius

‘This house is called by us Bonus Daemon or Bonus Genius’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.19.12

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.64


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bonus daemon (Lemma #1002). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bonus daemon (Lemma #1002). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bonus daemon (Lemma #1002). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) bonus daemon (Lemma #1002), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1002,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {bonus daemon ({Lemma} #1002)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/},
}