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δαίμονα (daimona)

δαίμονα is an Ancient Greek form of δαίμων, meaning “divine power, god; fortune”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 138 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.719: αὐτοὶ κυδίστην τότε δαίμονα πορσαίνοντες.

Plato, Laws 7.804: … δὴ καὶ τοὺς ἡμετέρους τροφίμους δεῖ διανοουμένους τὰ μὲν εἰρημένα ἀποχρώντως νομίζειν εἰρῆσθαι, τὰ δὲ καὶ τὸν δαίμονά τε καὶ θεὸν αὐτοῖσιν ὑποθήσεσθαι θυσιῶν τε πέρι καὶ χορειῶν, οἷστισί τε καὶ ὁπότε ἕκαστα ἑκάστοις προσπαίζοντ …

Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 566: δέξαιτʼ, ἐπειδὴ δαιμονᾷ δόμος κακοῖς·

All forms of δαίμων (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.