god
Genius
In Roman religion the personal guardian spirit attending each man from birth (the woman's counterpart being her Juno); Seneca reads the belief as a Stoic intuition of a god within.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §19.110.1 Genius
The personal guardian spirit each Roman man was thought to possess from birth (a woman's counterpart was her Juno); Seneca treats the old belief as a Stoic intuition of a god within each person.