daemon

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

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

In nocturna vero <a> Fortuna usque ad Daemonem simillimis rationibus conputabis

‘In a night-chart count from the lot of fortune until the lot of the daemon in a most similar way’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.45

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. 2.187

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). daemon (Lemma #1384). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1384/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). daemon (Lemma #1384). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1384/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). daemon (Lemma #1384). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1384/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) daemon (Lemma #1384), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1384/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1384,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {daemon ({Lemma} #1384)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1384/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1384/},
}