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
145–180 of 284
Common things
Common things are widely available or shared and familiar.
Centuries of Meditations
Communication
To communicate is to impart or share.
Centuries of Meditations · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Communication of properties
Communication of properties is the reciprocal sharing of the idioms of two natures in the inseparable union of catholic matter with silver or gold.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Community and communion
Koinōnia is a relationship of sharing or participation.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Compaction
Pilēsis is compression or packing together.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Companion
Hetairos means companion; associate; member of a familiar circle.
Lysis
Comparing, resembling and equalling
Comparare brings things into a comparison; similis names likeness, whereas aequalis and par name equality.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Comparison and common sense
Comparare means bringing different contents together for comparison, not merely acquiring them separately.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Compensation
Compensation is a balancing or offsetting of one condition by another.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Complacency
Complacency is pleased satisfaction in an object judged good.
Centuries of Meditations
Composite
Synthetos describes something put together from constituents.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Composite creatures
The surviving descriptions are compounds of conspicuous bodily features: faces on both sides, breasts on both sides, ox-kind with a human “prow,” and human growth with ox-heads.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Composite person
Συναμφότερον means the two taken together.
Alcibiades I
Composition
Composition joins the emergence of a work to its arrangement and execution.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Composition and inward unity
Composition is the joining of several constituents.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Compound aggregate
Synkrima is what has been combined, a compound or aggregate.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Comprehensor
A comprehensor holds or apprehends things within understanding.
Centuries of Meditations
Compulsion and force
Biazesthai means using force or constraining someone; its forms dominate the last exchange.
Charmides · Lysis+1 book
Concealment and names
Concealment distinguishes the thing's familiar public name from recognition of its philosophical significance.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Conceit
A conceit is a conception or opinion held in the mind.
Centuries of Meditations · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Conceit of knowledge
The expression means thinking or supposing that one knows.
Alcibiades I
Concept
Ennoēma is a concept or conception.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Conception
Epinoia concerns conceiving or considering something in thought.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Conception and understanding
Concevoir and comprendre concern grasping something, but the particular intellectual operation depends on the surrounding contrast.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Concernment
Concernment means relevance, importance, or a matter that concerns someone.
Centuries of Meditations
Concord
Symphōnia is a sounding together, hence concord or agreement.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Concord and agreement
Ὁμόνοια names concord, a being of one mind; διχόνοια is discord or division of mind.
Alcibiades I · Stobaeus, Volume I
Concupiscence
Concupiscence is strong desire or longing.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Concupiscible and irascible
Concupiscible and irascible name two powers or inclinations of appetite.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Condescension
Condescension is the voluntary descent of one who is high toward someone low or needy.
Centuries of Meditations
Conditions and the fashioner’s law
Condicio is a condition of existence.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Confessio
The Confessio is Khunrath's repeatedly cited work on the hylealic Chaos.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Confession and the story of the self
Confession names both a disclosure of hidden experience and the religious forms of acknowledging fault.
René
Confession and witness
Confession names the author's public avowal of the true Magnesia and its significance, not only the separate book called Confessio.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Configuration
Configuration is arrangement or shape.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Confusion and lawlessness
Tarachē is disturbance or confusion; anomia is lawlessness or lack of lawful order.
Alcibiades II
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