cacodaemon

Latin noun
quoted from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-01
Primary meaning place of the bad daemon
Literal translation bad daemon
Variants
cacodaemon
cacos daemon
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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


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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: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1011,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cacodaemon ({Lemma} #1011)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1011/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1011/},
}