malus daemon

Latin noun
calqued from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning place of the bad daemon
Literal translation bad daemon
Variants
malus daemon
Edited by
place of the bad daemon astrological place

12th astrological place

Malus vero Daemon in XII. ab horoscopo signo ponitur

‘but the Malus Daemon is located in the twelfth sign from the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.17.1

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. 1.60

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). malus daemon (Lemma #1010). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). malus daemon (Lemma #1010). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). malus daemon (Lemma #1010). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) malus daemon (Lemma #1010), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1010,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {malus daemon ({Lemma} #1010)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/},
}