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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,850 entries across 24 collectionsTerms beginning with C
109–144 of 333
Circuits their ordering and the contrary eighth
Periodos is a circuit or going around; kyklos a circle or cycle; phora motion or being carried; diexodos a course through; polos the orbit or revolving course assigned here to each power.
Epinomis
Circular doctrine
Doctrine is an authoritative body of teaching.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Circular motion
Periphora denotes a circular course or revolution and can name the circuit itself.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Circularity and return
Circuitus, circulus and revolutio name a circuit, circle or revolution.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Circulation
Circulation carries something through a course that can return, sustain a quantity, or distribute activity.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Circumambulation
Circumambulation is ritual movement around a sacred center.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Circumference
Periphereia is the circular outer extent or periphery.
Stobaeus, Volume I
City
Πόλις is the city as an organized community, not merely its buildings.
Alcibiades I · The Lovers+3 books
City and soul
Polis is a city as a political community; psychē is soul and can also signify life; politeia is a constitution or the commonwealth with its organisation and way of life.
Alcibiades II
Civic constitution
Politeia can mean a civic constitution or a shared manner of life.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Civil and barbarous
Civil ranges from cultivated and socially ordered to courteous, civic, secular, or internal to a political community.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Civilization and Original Sin
Civilisation is a moral achievement in LXXXI, not a synonym for the latest machinery or for belonging to the West.
Intimate Journals
Clangor Buccinae
The Clangor Buccinae, the Blast of the Trumpet, is a cited book, distinct from Khunrath's own Trumpets of Truth.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Clarity and obscurity
Σαφής is clear, δῆλος evident, ἐναργής vivid, καταφανής in full view. Against them stands the αἴνιγμα, the riddle, a saying whose sense is not in its words.
Charmides · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Class and caste
Flatland's classes are ranked bodily types, reinforced by education, occupations, marriage and law.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Classical metamorphoses
Two unnamed ancient transformations, identified by the supplied notes as Glaucus and Philemon with Baucis, give unlike forms to Guérin’s desire for altered existence.
The Green Notebook
Classical teachers and Amadis
Khunrath uses familiar literary names to discriminate kinds of speech and knowledge.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Clay and mud
Pēlos is clay or mud, a mixture associated with earth and moisture.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Cleansing and Sweetening
Cleansing and depuration remove impurity; sweetening-off or dulcoration belongs to the treatment of prepared materials associated with corrosive waters.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Cleinias, brother of Alcibiades
Cleinias here is Alcibiades’ brother, another ward of Pericles, not the father named in the opening patronymic.
Alcibiades I
Cleinias, father of Alcibiades
Cleinias is Alcibiades’ father; the genitive in “son of Cleinias” identifies the young man by his paternal line.
Alcibiades I
Clepsydra
Κλεψύδρηι names the bronze vessel in B100’s extended comparison.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Clerk
Clerk, with the printed variants Clark, Clarkes and Clarks, can mean a learned person or a clergyman.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Cliché and poncif
Poncif brings together a reproducible design and a conventional formula.
Intimate Journals
Clister
Clister and clyster are spellings of enema, a preparation administered through the lower bowel.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Cloak
An ἱμάτιον is a cloak, the loose woollen mantle Greeks wore over the tunic; ἀμπεχόνη is clothing.
Charmides
Clothes and repeated arguments
Little garments worn threadbare become the image of an argument rejected because it has been used before.
Alcibiades I
Clothing
Clothing is bodily covering and adornment.
Centuries of Meditations
Cloud
Nephos names a cloud.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Cloven meadows
The phrase combines a landscape noun, meadows, with an adjective meaning split or cleft, and attaches it to Aphrodite.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Clown
Clown can be a country labourer or country person, and can also carry the contemptuous sense boor: someone judged uncultivated in speech, conduct or social accomplishments.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Clue
A clue is originally a ball of thread; it can therefore be a guiding thread through a labyrinth.
Centuries of Meditations
Clymer and the book
R. Swinburne Clymer is the named author and organizing voice of the 1907 book.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Coagulated Mercury
Coagulated Mercury is the primary margin's name for the naturally furnished philosophical subject from which the command “Dissolve” follows.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Coagulation
Coagulation names a coming-together or consolidation of a formerly less settled material condition.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Coction and regulated heat
Coction is the source's name for prolonged cooking in the earth's veins.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, 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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry Lexicon
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry · R. Swinburne Clymer
131 entries · 495 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
295 entries · 6,097 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Kybalion Lexicon
The Kybalion · Three Initiates
92 entries · 347 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I Lexicon
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I · Attributed to Abraham the Jew
138 entries · 541 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