bonus daemon

Latin · noun
variant bonus genius
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-01
Meanings
Literal translation
good daemon
Categories
astrological place
Related Lemmata 4 ›

1. place of the good daemon

1.a 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

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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/
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Meinhardt, K. (2023). bonus daemon (Lemma #1002). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/
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BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1002,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {bonus daemon ({Lemma} #1002)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1002/},
}