agathodæmon

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  1. A good genius or spirit; a male divinity corresponding to the female Agathe Tyche, or Good Fortune. At Athens, and elsewhere in ancient Greece, it was customary at the end of a meal to pour out in his honor a libation of pure wine.
  2. In astrology, the eleventh house of the heavens.

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  1. from Greek ἀγαθοδαίμων, prop, written separately ἀγαθο\ς δαίμων: ἀγαθός, good; δαίμων, spirit, demon: see demon.
 

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