cacodaemon

Latin · noun
variant cacos daemon
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-01
Meanings
Literal translation
bad daemon
Categories
astrological place
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. place of the bad daemon

1.a place of the bad daemon astrological place

12th astrological place

Malum daemonem [...] cacodaemonem Graeci vocant

‘The bad daemon the Greeks call cacodaemon’

— 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

His locus a Graecis cacos daemon appellatur

‘This house is called by the Greeks κακὸς δαίμων’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.19.13

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. 1.65

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cacodaemon (Lemma #1011). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1011/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cacodaemon (Lemma #1011). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1011/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cacodaemon (Lemma #1011). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1011/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) cacodaemon (Lemma #1011), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1011/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1011,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cacodaemon ({Lemma} #1011)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1011/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1011/},
}