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 C
37–72 of 284
Celestial procession dance and what living things need
Poreia is a journey or procession; choreia a dance, especially coordinated choral movement; choros the dance or chorus; choreuein to dance.
Epinomis
Celestial tilt
The verb epiklithēnai means to have been inclined or tilted.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Céluta and the unfulfilled marriage
Céluta is the wife whom the supplied edition’s annotation identifies from the prologue to Atala.
René
Censorship and the Imagined Young Girl
The jeune fille of LXXXIII first appears as the young girl ‘of’ publishers and editors: an imagined reader used to police what art may show.
Intimate Journals
Center
Kentron is a center, especially a geometrical or cosmic center.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Centre and circumference
The centre is the middle point toward which distances or movements can be related; a circumference is the enclosing boundary of a circle.
Centuries of Meditations
Cerebral chambers
Cerebral chambers is an editorial heading for the brain’s cavities, ventricles, Creeks and cells in Burton’s account of the internal senses.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Ceremonial dress
Porphyra and halourgēs indicate purple clothing or dye-colored fabric; semnē esthēs is solemn or dignified dress.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Certainty and doubt
Certitude is the firmness with which an opinion is held; doute names its unsettled condition or a suspension of judgment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Certainty before achievement
Certainty here is the warranted recognition of the correct subject and the principles of the Art.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Chactas: sympathy, memory, and the common ways
Chactas is René’s adoptive father and one of the two internal hearers of his life story.
René
Chaerephon
Chaerephon of Sphettus, a district of Attica, was Socrates' friend from youth. In Plato's Apology he is the man who asked the oracle at Delphi whether anyone was wiser than Socrates; in Aristophanes' comedies he is Socrates' pale, half-dead follower, nicknamed "the bat".
Charmides
Chance and fortune
Tychē can name what befalls someone, the changing course of fortune, personified Fortune, or chance considered as a cause.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+2 books
Change
Change may affect things, languages, or the explanations people give of things.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Change and alteration
Metabolē is change; alloiōsis is alteration.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Changing laws and the draughts image
Metatithenai is to move, transfer, or change; in the middle it can describe changing one's arrangements.
Minos
Changing thought
Τὸ φρονεῖν is the activity of thinking in B108.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Changing-room
Apodytērion means changing-room.
Lysis
Chaos
Chaos is a name for the catholic, first-material subject in which the universal source of metals is available to the Philosopher.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Character
Ēthos means character; a characteristic disposition.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
Character and office
Ēthos is rendered “character,” while timē is “office” in B 17 and “honours” in other settings.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Characters
A “character” can be an inscribed sign, a distinguishing mark, or a description of someone's characteristic conduct.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Charioteer
Hēniochos means charioteer; the driver entrusted with the horses.
Lysis
Charity
Charité is not restricted to monetary giving in these witnesses.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Charles I
The king named in I.61 is Charles I, executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649.
Centuries of Meditations
Charm and pleasure
Agrément and charme name attractions that make an expression, object or mind pleasing.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Charmides
Χαρμίδης is Charmides son of Glaucon, after whom the dialogue is named: cousin and ward of Critias and, outside the dialogue, brother of Plato's mother and later one of the Thirty's ten in the Piraeus, killed in 403 BC.
Charmides · Theages
Charms
Charms, Charmes, and charme name means credited with an extraordinary power to influence, protect, injure or heal.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Chasm
Chasma is a gap or opening.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Chastity
Chasteté is represented as inward strength and a protected atmosphere; continence names restraint that can persist despite bodily condition.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Chateaubriand and René
René, identified by the supplied translator note as Chateaubriand’s work, is both a repeatedly read book and a fictional figure remembered at Saint-Malo.
The Green Notebook
Chemistry
Chemistry supplies operations with which Joubert tests philosophy and reading.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Cherishing
Agapaō means cherish; prize; set store by.
Lysis
Cherubim and seraphim
Cherubim and seraphim are angelic names.
Centuries of Meditations
Chest
Stēthos is the chest or breast.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Chest and mind
Phrēn and its plural phrenes can name a bodily region or the mind and its resolve.
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