> Any of you out there who can direct me to a reliable Mediaeval Latin
> dictionary? I'd be glad to know of one.
>
> best joanna
Lewis&Short is FOE via the Perseus project:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
... but that's classical Latin rather than Medieval.
There is, I think, an ongoing Medieval Latin dictionary in hardcopy, which
has reached somewhere about fascile T. But as Joanna knows more about this
than anyone else on the list, why she's asking, other than the triumph of
hope over experience, *I* don't know.
With the exception of the OED, the Web is actually rather well served with
dictionaries that deal with medieval English, both the Ann Arbor one and the
conflated DOST/SND. And let's not forget (post-medieval but with a truly
medieval search engine) the sixteen pre-1650 dictionaries concorded in the
EMEDD.
Joanna's post about said it all about the demon/daimon distinction (and
Martin, could you provide a locus for Jung on daimons, pretty please? Seven
Sermons Against the Dead?)
The esoteric spin (and I still haven't forgiven Martin blindsiding me here)
is the place of Daemons in the Nine Levels of the Celestial Hierarchy.
The obvious lucus is Burton, drawing on Thomas Stanley's 17thC +History of
Philosophy+, going back via the later (neo)Platonists to Chaldean astrology.
Tristram
Says Robert Burton in "A Digression of Spirits":
Plato, for he relying wholly on Socrates, _quem mori potius
quam mentiri voluisse scribit_, whom he says would rather die than tell a
falsehood, out of Socrates' authority alone, made nine kinds of them: which
opinion belike Socrates took from Pythagoras, and he from Trismegistus, he
from Zoroastes, first God, second idea, 3. Intelligences, 4. Arch-Angels,
5. Angels, 6. Devils, 7. Heroes, 8. Principalities, 9. Princes: of which
some were absolutely good, as gods, some bad, some indifferent _inter deos
et homines_, as heroes and daemons, which ruled men, and were called genii,
or as [1171]Proclus and Jamblichus will, the middle betwixt God and men.
Principalities and princes, which commanded and swayed kings and countries;
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/8/0/10800/10800.txt
Buggered my brains that, and it even baffled my thesis supervisor Dinos
Patrides.
Jinx or Jinges? It has to ultimately derive from some nutty loop in Chaldean
astrology.
I blame Psellus.
Just a thot.
R.
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