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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 C
217–252 of 284
Copula and Hymenaeus
Copula is a bond or link.
Centuries of Meditations
Cordial
A cordial is something that strengthens or revives the heart, especially a restorative medicine.
Centuries of Meditations
Corn
Corn in this English usage means cereal grain, not specifically maize.
Centuries of Meditations
Coronea
The later battle-site at which Alcibiades’ father died, according to Socrates.
Alcibiades I
Corporeal running mercuries
Corporeal running Mercuries are metal-derived forms described as remaining in flux and in quicksilver-like shape.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Corporeal soul and elemental doxography
Corpusculum is a little body; tenuis describes physical fineness or subtlety, not incorporeality.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Corporeal spirits and spiritual bodies
Corporeal spirits and spiritual bodies are the crossed names applied to already specified metallic embryos.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Corpse
Nekros means dead and, substantivally, a dead person or corpse.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Correction and chastisement
Kolasis is punishment or chastisement.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Correction and restoration
Epanorthōsis is correction or setting right.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Correctness and correction
Correctness is an achieved quality of writing or thought; correction is the activity that may secure it.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Correctness and error
Orthōs means rightly or correctly, and orthotēs is rightness or correctness.
Charmides · Hipparchus
Correspondence
Correspondence names a relation between inward and outward events that may be felt without an obvious causal or logical connection.
The Green Notebook
Corrosives and Menstrua
A menstruum is a medium employed for dissolving or extracting; the body names menstrua of several kinds.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Corruption
Diaphtheirein means to destroy, spoil or corrupt.
Theages · Centuries of Meditations
Cosmic administration
Dioikēsis is administration or governance.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Cosmic boundary
Περιγραφή is an outline or circumscription; πέρας is a limit; περίδρομος is a circuit or course around.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Cosmic conflagration
Ekpyrōsis denotes burning up.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Cosmic ordering
Diakosmēsis concerns the ordering or ordered formation of the cosmos.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Cosmic right and left
The right-hand and left-hand sides of the cosmos are defined in relation to the summer and winter tropics.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Cosmogony under Love
The phrases refer to generation or a world “under Love.”
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Counsel
Εὐβουλία is good counsel or sound deliberation; ἀβουλία is lack of it.
Alcibiades I · Centuries of Meditations
Counsel and settled skill
Consilium is counsel or deliberative planning; consultare is to deliberate; callere to be thoroughly skilled.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Counting and collective intuition
Enumerare counts off or lists; gradatim means step by step; summatim can mean collectively or in a gathered view.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Counting the moon and the formation of a calendar
Hēmera is day and nyx night; selēnē moon; mēn month; eniautos year.
Epinomis
Country
Country may mean a foreign land or the countryside outside urban life.
Centuries of Meditations
Courage
Ἀνδρεία names courage or bravery; δειλία its opposed cowardice, with δειλός describing the cowardly person.
Alcibiades I · Stobaeus, Volume I+2 books
Courage and courteous addresses
Ἀνδρεῖος means courageous or manly; θαυμάσιος wonderful or remarkable; γλυκύς sweet; βέλτιστος best, here the courteous “my excellent friend”; and ἑταῖρος companion or associate.
Hipparchus
Court of conscience
The “court of conscience” is the tribunal before which an inward evasion of a freely spoken oath fails.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Court of judgment
Dikastērion is a court or place of judgment.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Cousin
Anepsios means cousin.
Lysis
Covenant
A covenant is an ordered relation established by promise and obligation.
Centuries of Meditations
Cowardice
Deilia is cowardice, a failure of courage.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Cozenage
Cozenage means cheating, fraud, or dishonest dealing.
Centuries of Meditations
Craft and fitting
Technēs is an inflected form of technē, craft or trained skill.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Craft and skill
Métier names a practiced or rule-governed competence; habileté can name natural skill.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–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