I'm not quite sure I understand what is the distinction between
θεός and δαίμων, and then in turn, θεῖα and δαιμόνια.
Socrates is accused of not believing in the gods in which the state believes in,
but of believing instead in some new δαιμόνια. What exactly are those (τὰ) δαιμόνια?
Are they inferior beings to gods and δαίμονες (another distinction I'm not sure is even clear to me)?
Or are they simply things pertaining to δαίμονες, such as divine intervention, miracles, marvelous phenomena,
in which case, how are those things any different than (τὰ) θεῖα?
If the second option is the case, how does it fit with his argument of the parents and their descendants (δαίμονες vs. δαιμόνια)?
He's also said the state deems these δαίμονες (to be) θεοί. In what ways, then, do they differ from them?
I apologize if I ask a lot of questions, but this portion of his cross-examination has left me at a loss.