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Socrates - Plato Cratylus - The daemon
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Plato – Cratylus
SOCRATES: And therefore I have the most entire conviction that he called them daemons, because they were daemones (knowing or wise), …... Now he and other poets say truly, that when a good man dies he has honour and a mighty portion among the dead, and becomes a daemon; which is a name given to him signifying wisdom. And I say too, that every wise man who happens to be a good man is more than human (daimonion) both in life and death, and is rightly called a daemon.