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δαίμονες (daimones)

δαίμονες is an Ancient Greek form of δαίμων, meaning “divine power, god; fortune”. It is the vocative plural masculine noun.

Found 121 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.921: δαίμονες ἐνναέται, τὰ μὲν οὐ θέμις ἄμμιν ἀείδειν.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 267: ἔλεξε δʼ· Οὐχ ὁρᾶτε; δαίμονές τινες

Plutarch, De Genio Socratis 22·4: … αὶ ζόφον ὥσπερ πηλὸν ἀποσειομένους, τὰς ἐκ τῶν σωμάτων ἐπαναπλεούσας μετὰ τὸν θάνατον· οἱ δʼ ἄνω διαφερόμενοι δαίμονὲς εἰσι τῶν νοῦν ἔχειν λεγομένων ἀνθρώπων. πειράθητι δὲ κατιδεῖν ἑκάστου τὸν σύνδεσμον, ᾧ τῇ ψυχῇ συμπέφυκε. ταῦ …

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.