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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
145–180 of 233
Aqua Regia
Aqua regia is paired with aqua fortis in the page 126 comparison of metallic solutions and coloured stains.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Aquatic animals
Enydra means water-dwelling.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Arabesque
Arabesque here names drawing organized through patterned, elaborated line rather than a narrated incident.
Intimate Journals
Archelaus and his beloved
Archelaus is called tyrant of the Macedonians.
Alcibiades II
Archer and bow
Toxotēs is an archer, someone who shoots with a bow; toxon is the bow itself.
Hipparchus
Archer and target
Sagitta is an arrow, sagittarius an archer, and signum here a mark or target.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Archetypal sun
Ἀρχέτυπον means archetypal or original pattern.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Archetype
Archetypos characterizes an original pattern in relation to what resembles it.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Archimedes and the bronze spheres
Aeneus means made of bronze or copper alloy.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Architect, house and decoration
An architectus directs a construction; a minister serves under that direction.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Architecture
Architecture is both the expressive arrangement of buildings and a model for the disposition of thoughts and sentences.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · René
Ares
Ares is the divine name opening B128's list of powers absent from the community's worship.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Arg-Chymist
The argChymist is the polemically marked bad practitioner, rendered “arrant Chymist.”
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Argos
Argos is named with Lacedaemon as a realm of the royal genealogy traced back to Zeus.
Alcibiades I
Argumentative contradiction
Antilogikos means practised in contradiction; one who argues against a claim.
Lysis
Aristides, Thucydides, and their family names
The repeated names belong to two genealogies: Aristides, son of Lysimachus, son of Aristides; and Thucydides, son of Melesias, son of Thucydides.
Theages
Aristocracy, Office, and Servitude
Aristocratie is both a claim about political government and a language of exceptional worth.
Intimate Journals
Ariston, sculptor and painter
The named father and son illustrate generation of an individual.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Aristotle
Aristotle appears as a named authority for the relation of felicity to the exercise of virtue.
Centuries of Meditations · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum+1 book
Aristotle and Avicenna
Aristotle and Avicenna enter through attributed sayings rather than continuous exposition.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Aristotle, Avicenna and counting minds
Numerare or dinumerare counts; computare calculates.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Arithmetic and geometrical progression
An arithmetical progression increases by a constant difference; a geometrical progression increases by a constant ratio.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Arithmetic and measurement
Ἀριθμητικός is the person skilled in numbers, and ἀριθμητική names arithmetic.
Alcibiades I
Arm of God
In the p. 163 margin God's arm is explicitly glossed as his strength or Elixir.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Army and commander
Exercitus is an army; dux a commander, leader or guide; princeps the ruling head; and ordinator one who arranges.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Arnold of Villanova
Arnold is invoked as a witness to the power of philosophical pri-material water to dissolve metals and carry them into first matter.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Arrangement
Diataxis names an ordering of things or an arranged exposition.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Arsenic
Arsenic is a rival candidate on page 34 and is explicitly brought under the embryonic-material objection in the page 76 margin.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Art
Art includes acquired skill or a practice governed by means and rules, as well as the fine arts.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook
Art and artifice
Art is purposeful skill, learned method, or devised workmanship.
Centuries of Meditations
Art and Artist
The Art is the ordered chymical activity by which Nature’s highest good is attained.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Art and craft
Τέχνη is a craft, a teachable skill with its own field and, mostly, its own product; a δημιουργός is a craftsman.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+7 books
Art and elemental transformation
Ars means a craft or practiced art; natura is nature as a productive principle.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Art and nature
Ars means purposive skill or craft; artificium its work.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Artaxerxes
The Persian king, son of Xerxes, against whom Alcibiades imagines competing; Burnet’s Greek spells the name Artoxerxes.
Alcibiades I
Artery
Artēria is an artery or bodily conduit, whose exact ancient anatomical sense depends on the source.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Anatomy of Melancholy
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