In Plato's Banquet the power or function of the Daemonic element in nature is explained.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
It undermined the already crumbling polytheism; it made philosophy the apostle of a belief in a baleful Daemonic agency.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
It was by a natural instinct that the Antonine Platonists went back to the great teacher of Plato for support of the system which was to link religion with philosophy by the Daemonic theory.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill