[237] Plato: Symposium, 202 E.
[238] Herodotus: ii. 53.
[239] De Defectu Orac., 415 B.
[240] Hesiod: Works and Days, 122-125 (Elton’s translation).
[241] Works and Days, 253. Cf. the beautiful fragment from Menander preserved by Plutarch, De Tranquillitate Animi, 474 B:—
“By every man, the moment he is born,
There stands a guardian Dæmon, who shall be
His mystagogue through life.”
[242] Works and Days, 141-2.
[243] De Defectu Oraculorum, 445 B.—Pluto, too, though perhaps not quite with the innocent purpose of Homer, gives “dæmons” as an alternative to “gods”—Timæus, Sec. 16. (A passage charged with the most mordant irony against the national religious tradition.)