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 B
109–128 of 128
Breathless woman
Apnous means without breath.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Brevity
Brièveté and concision concern economy of expression, but a short formulation must still produce an intelligible or vivid effect.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Brick
Brick is a candidate named in the catalogue on page 34.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Brick wall
The image is a wall made of bricks and stones.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Bride and bridegroom
Bride and bridegroom are the partners in marriage.
Centuries of Meditations
Brightness
Lampros describes brightness or brilliance.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Brittany
Brittany is the northern and western country of Guérin’s retreat, coastal discovery, and enduring attachment.
The Green Notebook
Bronze and tin
B92’s metal example describes what the edition calls bronze when mixed with tin.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Bronze footwear
The witnesses use several footwear terms: embatai, krēpides, sandal, and the generic hypodēmata.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Bronze mirror and concentrated fire
Colligere gathers dispersed things; unio is their unification.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Brotherhood
Brotherhood is the relation of shared kinship, here extended into spiritual and universal human fellowship.
Centuries of Meditations
Builder and house-building
Οἰκοδομεῖν is to build, and first of all to build a house; οἰκοδομική is the builder's craft, house-building, and οἴκησις a dwelling, a house.
Charmides
Building and shipbuilding
Οἰκοδομία is building and οἰκοδόμος a builder.
Alcibiades I
Building equipment and what suits the people
Synuphē is a weaving or joining together; oikodomia building; skeuos an item of equipment or an implement.
Epinomis
Burden labor and ease
Sollicitari means to be troubled or made anxious; onerari to be burdened.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Burning
Kausis is burning, the process by which fire or heat consumes or alters something.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Business
Business is an affair that occupies attention.
Centuries of Meditations
Busybody
Ardelio names the intrusive, self-important busybody; Khunrath also makes a German verb from it.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Busybody and School-fox
Khunrath's learned insults distinguish several failures.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Busybody and stooping over things
Polypragmonein is to meddle or be a busybody, occupying oneself with many affairs.
The Lovers
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