in Cratylus speculates that the word daimon (???u??, "deity") is synonymous to daemon (???u??, "knowing or wise"); however, it is more probably daio (????, "to divide, to distribute destinies, to allot").

Socrates

In Plato's Symposium, the priestess Diotima teaches Socrates that love is not a deity, but rather a "great daimon" (202d). She goes on to explain

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