Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Daemon

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

DAEMON (δαίμων). Properly, a Greek word, signifying a good spirit, who was supposed to preside over every individual during his life time; translated by the Latin words LAR and GENIUS; which see. Apul. Deo Socrat. p. 674. Cic. Univers. 11.

2. By the ecclesiastical writers of the Christian era, always in the sense of an evil spirit, or devil. Lactant. ii. 14. Tertull. Apol. 22.