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δαίμονι (daimoni)

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

It can also be a form of δαιμόνιος, “strange one! (address); marvellous”.

Found 103 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.539: πειρήσων· τάχα δʼ ἂν σὺν δαίμονι πειρηθείην.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 22.62: δαιμόνιʼ, οὐδʼ ἂν τοῦδε πιεῖν ὕδατος σύγε δοίης;

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 3.7.1: … τὴν χρῆσιν γενέσθαι. παρʼ ἡμῖν δʼ ὁ μὲν μὴν καλεῖται Προστατήριος, ἕκτῃ δʼ ἱσταμένου νομίζεται θύσαντας ἀγαθῷ Δαίμονι γεύεσθαι τοῦ οἴνου μετὰ ζέφυρον· οὗτος γὰρ μάλιστα τῶν ἀνέμων ἐξίστησι καὶ κινεῖ τὸν οἶνον, καὶ ὁ τοῦτον διαφ …

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.