demiurgus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dēmĭurgus, or acc. to the Dor. form dāmĭurgus, i, m., = δημιουργός, Dor. δᾶμιουργός.

I The chief magistrate in some of the Grecian states , Liv. 32, 22; 38, 30; title of a comedy of Turpilius, Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 1; Non. 226, 12 al.; cf. Rib. Com. p. 89 sq.—

II The Maker of the world , Tert. adv. Valent. 24.

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