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4 results for "daimons"

1. Tosefta, Shabbat, 7.23 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •daimons, language of Found in books: Janowitz (2002b) 93

2. Plutarch, On The Sign of Socrates, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •language, non-verbal (of daimones) Found in books: Dillon and Timotin (2015) 103

588e. with the body but little, for necessary ends, was so sensitive and delicate as to respond at once to what reached him. What reached him, one would conjecture, was not spoken language, but the unuttered words of a daemon, making voiceless contact with his intelligence by their sense alone. For speech is like a blow â when we converse with one another, the words are forced through our ears and the soul is compelled to take them in â; whereas the intelligence of the higher power guides the gifted soul, which requires no blows, by the touch of its thought; and the soul on its part yields to the slackening and tightening of its movements by the higher intelligence.

3. Justin, First Apology, 2.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •language, non-verbal (of daimones) Found in books: Dillon and Timotin (2015) 4

4. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 3.215 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •daimons, language of Found in books: Janowitz (2002b) 93

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