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Preparation for the Gospel
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903
Book 15, 43. Of Daemons and Heroes
1 ‘IN connexion with the discourse concerning gods we must inquire into that which concerns daemons and heroes.
‘Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, the Stoics: daemons are beings of the nature of souls: heroes also are souls which have been separated from their bodies; and the good souls are good daemons, and the bad souls evil daemons.
‘But Epicurus admits none of these opinions.’
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