Demon
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Demo · I · Kīśmīla · arāya · his brother · the speaker
spoken of as
2 expressionsKīśmīla“demon”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Born from a cloud, born from the rain, born from around the sky, born from the ocean — the Kīśmīla we destroy.
arāya“demon”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
We lead you, O arāya, out — you who have entered her.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A demon of impotence/misfortune addressed and driven out to protect a woman and her offspring.
We lead you, O arāya, out — you who have entered her.
When you, O arāya, come here, we smite you with the herb.
When you, O arāya, approach her, bestow upon her the nourishment of wealth.
Against Timarchus
An Athenian after whom an apartment house in Colonus was popularly (and inaccurately) named, cited as an example in the argument about naming.
He says first that the apartment house in Colonus which is called Demon’ s is falsely named, for it does not belong to Demon.
Against Aphobus II
The father's brother (the speaker's uncle), called to sit beside the three guardians as a witness when the father made his deathbed arrangements.
For my father, men of the jury, when he saw that he was not to recover from his sickness, called together these three men, and causing his brother Demon to sit with them by his side, placed our persons in their hands, calling us a sacred deposit.
Against Aphobus III
Aphobus's uncle and a partner in the guardianship affairs, compelled by Demosthenes to testify and later a witness against Aphobus.
I summoned Aphobus to give evidence against Demo, his uncle and a partner in his crimes.
that Aphobus himself has, at my summons, given against Demo, his uncle and co-trustee, the same testimony as the witnesses whom he is suing;
Secondly, Demo, his uncle, and the rest of the witnesses who were present, testified that he agreed to supply my mother with maintenance, as being in possession of her portion.
Against Zenothemis
The defendant and narrator of the speech, addressed as 'Demo' by his kinsman Demosthenes, who dispossessed Zenothemis of the disputed grain.
They will accuse Demosthenes, and will say that I relied upon his help when I put Zenothemis out of possession of the grain, assuming that this charge will be credited because he is an orator and a well-known personage.
After this Protus and I challenged him to go before the Syracusan authorities, and, if it should be shown that Protus had bought the grain, that the customs duties were recorded in his name, and that it was he who had paid the price, we demanded that Zenothemis be punished as a rascal;
When, therefore, he refused to be put out of possession by Protus, or to sail back to Sicily for an equitable settlement, and when it was proved that he was an accomplice in all the villainy of Hegestratus, the only course left for us, who had lent our money here at Athens and had taken over the grain from the man who had honestly purchased it there in Sicily, was to dispossess the plaintiff.