daemonium

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2024-10-21
Primary meaning fourth astrological place
Literal translation little Daimon
Variants
daemonium
Edited by
fourth astrological place astrological place

only in Manilius

titulus, quem Graecia fecit, Daemonium signat dignas pro nomine vire.

‘Daemonium is the name the Greeks have given it, denoting influences fitting the name.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.935a+937b

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 156-157

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). daemonium (Lemma #2366). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2366/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). daemonium (Lemma #2366). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2366/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). daemonium (Lemma #2366). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2366/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) daemonium (Lemma #2366), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2366/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2366,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {daemonium ({Lemma} #2366)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2366/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2366/},
}