Words · Meanings · Passages
Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,297 entries across 21 collectionsTerms beginning with A
73–108 of 233
Altar
Bōmos is an altar, a raised place of sacred offering.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Alternating visual passages
Enallax means alternately or in alternation.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Always and everywhere
Semper ordinarily means always, ubi where, ubique everywhere, and nusquam nowhere.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Always moving
Aeikinētos describes continuous or abiding motion.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Amadis
Amadis is a literary comparator for claims that deserve little belief because they lack grounds.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Amasis
Amasis is the Egyptian king named in the anecdote asking the Greek wise men what is most beautiful.
Centuries of Meditations
Amber
Ēlektron denotes amber here, although the word can have other material senses in other contexts.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Ambiguity
Amphibola are ambiguous expressions; phenakizei means deceives or cheats.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Ambition
Ambition is an editorial umbrella for the hopes, desires and designs attributed to Alcibiades.
Alcibiades I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
Ambition and tyranny
Tyrannos is a tyrant and tyrannis the rule or dominion sought.
Alcibiades II
Amélie
Amélie is René’s slightly older sister, the sole companion with whom his childhood constraint gives way to ease.
René
Amestris
Xerxes’ wife and the Persian king’s mother, imagined by Socrates as an assessor of Alcibiades’ chances.
Alcibiades I
Ammon, oracle and prophet
Ammon is the god consulted by the Athenians in Socrates’ reported story; the prophētēs is his answering representative.
Alcibiades II
Amphion
Amphion is the legendary musician whose playing drew stones into the walls of Thebes.
Centuries of Meditations
Amphitheatrum
The Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom, is Khunrath's own cited book.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Amulets, Sacraments, and Moral Dynamics
Dynamique morale conceives inward life through forces, instruments, reservoirs, and effects.
Intimate Journals
Anacreon
Anacreon of Teos was a lyric poet of the late sixth century BC, a singer of love and wine, who was at the court of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and was brought to Athens by Hipparchus, son of the tyrant Pisistratus.
Charmides · Hipparchus
Analogical harmony
Harmonia analogica is the wonderful correspondence of Magnesia and the Stone with Christ, expressly carried in the reverse direction by & contra, “and conversely.”
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Analogy and comparison
Hōsper means “just as” or “as”; tauta is the contracted form of ta auta, “the same things”.
Theages · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
Analysis
Analyse can name an involuntary mental discrimination or an imposed procedure of separating a thing into constituents.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook
Analysis and resolution
Analysis is a loosening or resolving into constituents.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Analysis, mangling, and fictive construction
Resolutio is intellectual analysis into explanatory constituents; dilaniatio is physical tearing or mangling.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Anatomical membranes
A membrane is a covering or lining.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Anatomy
Anatomy and Anatomie name dissection, an account of bodily structure, and an ordered examination that figuratively cuts a subject into its parts.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Anatomy and neurology
Névrologie names anatomical study and representation of nerves in the historical usage explained in the translation notes.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Anaxagoras
One of the wise associates named in Alcibiades’ defence of Pericles’ education.
Alcibiades I · The Lovers+1 book
Ancestor
Progonos means ancestor; a forebear.
Lysis
Ancestral law uncertain worship and the limits of innovation
Patrios nomos is ancestral law or inherited usage.
Epinomis
Ancestry, nature and upbringing
Genos denotes family, stock or lineage; physis natural endowment; trophē rearing or upbringing.
Alcibiades I
Ancient Fathers and Tertullian
The Fathers enter both as authorities to be judged and as precedents for Khunrath's own method.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Ancient wisdom and the Porch
Ancient philosophy offers Guérin images of elevated calm, rooted strength, and resistance to suffering.
The Green Notebook
Ancients and moderns
Anciens and modernes organize comparisons between literary practices; ancien can also mean earlier within the modern period.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · René
Anebon Abamon and the mental-presence authorities
The two first names are identified as Egyptian priests; Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Julian as Platonists.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Angel and messenger
Angelos is a messenger and can name an angelic being in a philosophical hierarchy.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Anger
Ὀργίζεσθαι is to become or be angry; ἀγανακτεῖν is to be vexed or aggrieved at something one thinks wrong, and can be felt on behalf of another person or thing.
Charmides · Alcibiades II+3 books
Anger and spirit
Thymos can name spirited anger, a power of soul, or, in poetry, the life that departs from a body.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Books in the Lexicon
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades I Lexicon
Alcibiades I · Plato
176 entries · 701 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades II Lexicon
Alcibiades II · Plato
94 entries · 290 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Traherne Lexicon
Centuries of Meditations · Thomas Traherne
471 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Charmides Lexicon
Charmides · Plato
173 entries · 777 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Empedocles Lexicon
Empedocles, Volumes I–II · Empedocles of Acragas
490 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Epinomis Lexicon
Epinomis · Plato
77 entries · 1,061 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Flatland Literary Lexicon
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions · Edwin A. Abbott
85 entries · 476 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Khunrath Lexicon
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · Heinrich Khunrath
326 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Hipparchus Lexicon
Hipparchus · Plato
90 entries · 291 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Baudelaire Literary Lexicon
Intimate Journals · Charles Baudelaire
80 entries · 323 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lysis Lexicon
Lysis · Plato
239 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I Lexicon
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino
231 entries · 1,313 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II Lexicon
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II · Marsilio Ficino
148 entries · 1,398 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Minos Lexicon
Minos · Plato
54 entries · 506 subsidiary terms
October 2026
René Literary Lexicon
René · François-René de Chateaubriand
81 entries · 275 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Stobaeus Lexicon
Stobaeus, Volume I · John Stobaeus
610 entries · 85 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy Lexicon
The Anatomy of Melancholy · Robert Burton
103 entries · 3,864 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Joubert Lexicon
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Joseph Joubert
459 entries · 110 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Theages Lexicon
Theages · Plato
62 entries · 510 subsidiary terms