of those that are called geniuses and heroes

having treated of the essence of the deities in a just order, it follows that we discourse of daemons and heroes. thales, pythagoras, plato, and the stoics do conclude that daemons are essences endowed with souls; that the heroes are the souls separated from their bodies, some are good, some are bad; the good are those whose souls are good, the evil those whose souls are wicked. all this is rejected by epicurus.