| Baudelaire the poet has a special daimonic vision insofar as the poet has insight into the daimon described by Hesiod as unseen by the one being influenced. |
| It was his daimon who intervened in the Phaedrus, after Socrates had argued that it was better for a boy to yield to a man who did not love him than to a lover. |
| The Latin equivalent of daimon is genius, the spirit double that is born and dies with a man and influences his conduct. |
| Thanks to the daimon who kept him from swallowing Reformist preaching in his youth, future readers will never view him as a convert. |
| Like the daimon of Socrates who indicates only what not to do, we too know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. |
| But they never questioned the very existence of the gods, and Socrates regularly followed the dictates of his daimon, a personal divine guide. |
