Lexicographical Neighbors of Daimons
Literary usage of Daimons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phases of Early Christianity, Six Lectures by Joseph Estlin Carpenter (1916)
"For this purpose Plutarch calls in the help of the daimons. These were not the
hostile and degraded agents of evil against whose mischievous attacks popular ..."
2. From the First Shot: A Picture History of the Great Waredited by Hannah White edited by Hannah White (1918)
"daimons A YEAR ago we said, "The kings must go, the good ones with the bad ones
... Primitive men feared their strong men not as dynamos, but as "daimons"; ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1880)
"For as men in general speak of good and evil daimons, and in like manner of ...
Philosophers in general call these daimons, but the sacred word is wont to ..."
4. History of Greece, and of the Greek People, from the Earliest Times to the by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Victor Duruy, M. M. Ripley (1892)
"These daimons fill," he says, " the space which separates heaven from earth, and
are the bond uniting the great Whole. The divinity never entering into ..."
5. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1851)
"In one place it is said, ' He suffered not the daimons to speak, ... We find in
various passages in the New Testament actions ascribed to daimons, ..."
6. Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions by Percy Stafford Allen, John de Monins Johnson (1908)
"daimons may be united to gods or to men. Men may be joined to gods, to daimons,
... Evil is inherent in the world, and daimons drive men to it, ..."
7. Thrice-greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis by George Robert Stow Mead (1906)
"Who then doth have a Ray shining upon him through the Sun within his rational
part— and these in all are few—on them the daimons do not act ; for no ..."
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