Prince of Darkness
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Prince of Darkness is a term used in John Milton's poem Paradise Lost, published in 1667, referring to Satan, who is viewed as the embodiment of evil. It is an English translation of the Latin phrase princeps tenebrarum, which occurs in the Acts of Pilate, written in the fourth century, in the 11th-century hymn Rhythmus de die mortis by Pietro Damiani[2], and in a sermon by Bernard of Clairvaux[3] from the 12th century.
The phrase also occurs in King Lear by William Shakespeare (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, l. 140:
Edgar: The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
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