daemones

In later times, too, the daemones were regarded as beings intermediate between the gods and mankind, forming, as it were, the retinue of the gods, representing their powers in activity, and intrusted with the fulfilment of their various functions.

1896, Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, volume I, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company, page 464, column 2

But the Greek daemones had been tutelary: Socrates’ had been a good spirit, careful to admonish him in accordance with the dictates of wisdom and virtue.

1965, Robert Rentoul Reed, Jr., The Occult on the Tudor and Stuart Stage, The Christopher Publishing House, →LCCN, page 70

In that early medieval Europe sustained a powerful belief in angels, it is true to say that the old good daemones were to some extent rescued in this form.

1991, Valerie I[rene] J[ane] Flint, The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 157

In later antiquity, Neoplatonic philosophy gave the daemones an important role as mediators between the spheres of men and God the gods themselves being too individualized to suit this mystic purpose.

1995, Richard Stoneman, Greek Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend, Diamond Books, →ISBN, page 58

Daemones were gifted with knowledge of the future and, in the pre-Christian world, were generally held to dwell in ‘that murky layer of the middle air which reached from the moon to the earth’.

2009, Susan Greenwood, The Anthropology of Magic, Routledge, published 2020, →ISBN