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|auten=ονος. [[divinity]], [[divine]] [[power]]; [[sometimes]] equivalent to [[θεός]], [[but]] esp. of the gods in [[their]] [[dealings]] [[with]] men, Il. 3.420; σὺν δαίμονι, ‘[[with]] the [[help]] of God,’ κακὸς [[δαίμων]], δαίμονος [[αἶσα]] κακή, etc.; [[hence]] freq. ‘[[fate]],’ ‘[[destiny]],’ [[πάρος]] [[τοι]] δαίμονα [[δώσω]], [[thy]] ‘[[death]],’ Il. 8.166.

|mdlsjtxt=[Perh. from [[δαίω]] B, to [[divide]] or [[distribute]] destinies.]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a god, [[goddess]], like [[θεός]], θεά, Hom., Trag., etc.:—in Hom. also [[deity]] or [[divine]] [[power]] ([[θεός]] denotes a god in [[person]]), Lat. [[numen]]; πρὸς δαίμονα [[against]] the [[divine]] [[power]]; σὺν δαίμονι with it, by its [[favour]], Il.:—so, κατὰ δαίμονα, [[nearly]] = τύχηι, by [[chance]], Hdt.; ἐν τῶι δ. = [[θεῶν]] ἐν γούνασι, Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> one's [[daemon]] or [[genius]], one's lot or [[fortune]], στυγερὸς [[δαίμων]] Od.; δαίμονος [[αἶσα]] κακή Od.: absol. [[good]] or ill [[fortune]], Trag.; esp. of the [[evil]] [[genius]] of a [[family]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> δαίμονες, in Hes., are the souls of men of the [[golden]] age, forming the [[link]] [[between]] gods and men:—[[later]], of any departed souls, Lat. manes, [[lemures]], Luc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> in NTest. an [[evil]] [[spirit]], a [[demon]], [[devil]].