Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Daemonium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DAEMON'IUM (δαιμόνιον). Diminutive of DAEMON; and, like that word, employed by the heathen writers to signify a good spirit; by the Christians for an evil one. Cic. Div. i. 24. Tertull. Apol. 21.