From the book
Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Regimen
δίαιτα
diaitaDiaita is a manner of living or regimen, including activities and habits as well as food and drink.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordDiaita is a manner of living or regimen, including activities and habits as well as food and drink.
- In StobaeusThe blessed region is characterized by a pleasant way of life with cultivated company, feasts, music, and freedom from pain.
- In this edition“Way of life” suits the afterlife description; “regimen” suits the account of bodily habits.
- A place to beginA pleasant way of life completes the description of the pious region.
- English renderings
- way of life; regimen
Meaning
Diaita is a manner of living or regimen, including activities and habits as well as food and drink.
Use in the book
The blessed region is characterized by a pleasant way of life with cultivated company, feasts, music, and freedom from pain. In the bodily discussion, changing a regimen can disturb an acquired adaptation. The broader meaning connects the passages without reducing either to a list of foods.
Places to read
Translation in this edition
“Way of life” suits the afterlife description; “regimen” suits the account of bodily habits.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 302–303, 415–416. The pairing of poets’ gatherings and philosophers’ theaters follows this edition’s wording, despite a different pairing in the parallel text.
From the book
Intimate Journals
Charles Baudelaire · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Hygiène: Regimen and Moral Care
Hygiène; Conduite; Morale; Méthode; sobriété; lichen
Hygiène names the preservation of health, but the final group extends its regimen into conduct, method, prayer, writing, money, and care for others.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordHygiène names the preservation of health, but the final group extends its regimen into conduct, method, prayer, writing, money, and care for others.
- In Intimate JournalsMon cœur mis à nu CIX begins with rules of increasing will and productivity, then records loneliness after debauchery and a frightening sensation dated 23 January 1862.
- In this edition‘Hygiene’ retains the historical heading, broader than cleanliness alone.
- A place to readHygiène.
Meaning
Hygiène names the preservation of health, but the final group extends its regimen into conduct, method, prayer, writing, money, and care for others. The body is neither discarded nor sufficient on its own: cold baths and food stand beside daily duties and invocations.
The repeated headings are working labels. They organize attempts to make a life sustainable; they do not attest that a coherent programme was adopted or that its promised cures occurred.
Use in the book
Mon cœur mis à nu CIX begins with rules of increasing will and productivity, then records loneliness after debauchery and a frightening sensation dated 23 January 1862. The move from self-command to vulnerability prevents the regimen from reading as assured mastery. Mon cœur mis à nu CXII's claim that a taste for work would cure everything is an exhortation under pressure, not a medical proposition the reader should adopt.
Mon cœur mis à nu CXV makes personal health a charitable duty because Jeanne and the mother need him. Mon cœur mis à nu CXVI then combines writing hours, hoped-for income, prayer, and a detailed lichen syrup recipe. This heterogeneous sequence is not a fall from sublime spirituality into trivial medicine: it exposes how spiritual projects depend on an embodied day.
Mon cœur mis à nu CXVII promises eternal rules while allowing work only as long as strength permits. That qualification matters beside more severe demands to work blindly or without respite. The regimen needs both persistence and a recognition of limits. Its repeated fresh starts should be read as evidence of continuing struggle, not retrospectively ironed into success.
Places to read
- Mon cœur mis à nu CIXHygiène. Projets — The group begins with plans rather than a report of cure.
- Mon cœur mis à nu CXVToilette, prière, travail. — Bodily care, devotion, and production form one abbreviated rule.
- Mon cœur mis à nu CXVILichen d’Islande. . . . 125 grammes. — The moral notebook incorporates a historical bodily preparation.
- Mon cœur mis à nu CXVIItant que mes forces ne le permettront — The final vow includes a limit of available strength.
Translation in this edition
‘Hygiene’ retains the historical heading, broader than cleanliness alone. Notes 98 and 1042345678910 distinguish Baudelaire's historical self-descriptions from modern diagnoses and identify Iceland lichen botanically without identifying the condition treated. ‘Attacks’ translates crises precisely because the condition is unnamed. The recipe is historical evidence, not current treatment advice, and the date in Mon cœur mis à nu CIX does not date the whole group.