Daimonion · Atlas

spoken of as

1 expression

Socrates's Divine Sign“daimonion”2 mentions

for my accustomed spiritual sign has occurred to me.

in the texts

ApologyClassical · Greek

The divine inner voice or sign Socrates has had since childhood that restrains him from certain actions and prevents him from entering public life.

Or is it evident, according to the indictment you brought, that it is by teaching them not to believe in the gods the state believes in, but in other new spiritual beings?

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But the reason for this, as you have heard me say at many times and places, is that something divine and spiritual comes to me, the very thing which Meletus ridiculed in his indictment.

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but there is no way for you to persuade any man who has even a little sense that it is possible for the same person to believe in spiritual and divine existences and again for the same person not to believe in spirits or gods or heroes.

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TheagesClassical · Greek

The private, prohibitive inner voice that Socrates says has guided him since childhood and that will determine whether his company benefits Theages.

for my accustomed spiritual sign has occurred to me.

theages ¶

for he will tell you that the words he spoke to him were these:

theages ¶

There is something spiritual which, by a divine dispensation, has accompanied me from my childhood up.

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SymposiumClassical · Greek

Socrates' divine sign, mentioned as an excuse for refusing Antisthenes' attention.

at one time you refuse me audience on the pretext of your divine sign, at another time because you have some other purpose in mind.

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