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The ancients had a custom after dinner of drinking 'of the Good Spirit', by taking an extra quaff of unmixed [wine]; and they call this 'of the Good Spirit',[1] but when they are ready to depart, 'of Zeus the Savior'. And this is what they called the second [day] of the month.[2] But there was also in Thebes a hero-shrine of the Good Spirit.
But others say that the first drinking vessel was called this.[3]
Aristotle composed a book On the Good in which he delineated the unwritten doctrines of Plato. Aristotle mentions the composition in the first [book] of On the Soul, calling it On Philosophy.[4]

Agathou Daimonos: ethos eichon hoi palaioi meta to deipnon pinein Agathou Daimonos, epirrophountes akraton, kai touto legein Agathou Daimonos, chôrizesthai de mellontes, Dios Sôtêros. kai hêmeran de tên deuteran tou mênos houtôs ekaloun. kai en Thêbais de ên hêrôion Agathou Daimonos. alloi de phasi to prôton potêrion houtô legesthai. hoti peri tagathou biblion suntaxas Aristotelês, tas agraphous tou Platônos doxas en autôi katatattei. kai memnêtai tou suntagmatos Aristotelês en tôi prôtôi peri psuchês, eponomazôn auto peri philosophias.

The first paragraph here is paralleled (in general terms) in Photius and other lexica, and also in the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 300, where this genitive-case phrase occurs.
See also alpha 966.
[1] cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.675B-C (15.17 Kaibel), where the G.S. is equated, not necessarily correctly, with Dionysos.
[2] cf. Hesychius s.v., and see generally J.D. Mikalson, The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year (Princeton 1975) 15 for this and other evidence and modern discussion (not confined to Athens).
[3] From alpha 966.
[4] Aristotle, de anima 404b19; cf. Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics 75.32-35.

David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 25 April 2002@03:46:05.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 December 2011@07:23:37.

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