CHAPTER XLIII ---- OF DAEMONS AND HEROES.
'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.'