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
253–284 of 284
Craftsman and father
Faber is a craftsman; genitor a begetter or father; filius a son.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Craftsman as skilled practitioner
Dēmiourgos and technitēs designate a practitioner of a craft; dēmiourgia is craftsmanship.
Alcibiades II · Hipparchus+3 books
Crased
Crased, crasie and crazed describe impairment, unsoundness or broken health.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Created Form and Immortality
Forme is distinguished from its material embodiment in CII.
Intimate Journals
Creation
Creation names both God's making of beings and the resulting order of created things.
Centuries of Meditations · The Green Notebook+2 books
Creator and poet
Poiētēs is a maker and, in a familiar specialized use, a poet.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Creature
A creature is something created.
Centuries of Meditations
Creature, power and operation
Creatura is a creature, everything other than God.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Credulity
Crédulité concerns readiness to believe, but the notebooks separate its inward motives from external grounds of credibility and from faith’s teachableness.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Creon and Teiresias
Creon and Teiresias enter through Euripides’ Phoenician Women.
Alcibiades II
Critias
Kritias names the main adult respondent, identified as Callaeschrus' son.
Charmides
Criticism
Critique names a practice and its practitioner.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Cronos
Cronos is a proper divine name in the list at B128.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Cronus Zeus Ares and the slower stars
Bradytēs is slowness, a relational description rather than a numerical orbital period.
Epinomis
Cross
The Cross is the instrument of Christ's execution and, by transfer, His suffering and redemptive self-offering.
Centuries of Meditations
Crossing of Xerxes
Diabasis is a crossing or passage; here the phrase names Xerxes’ crossing as a poetic subject.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Crowd
Foule names a physical gathering and an opportunity for the individual to cease feeling merely singular.
Intimate Journals
Crown
Stephanos is a wreath or crown, and the plural stephē in the Euripidean quotation names garlands.
Alcibiades II · Centuries of Meditations
Crude Mercury
Crude Mercury is the natural, not-yet-perfected catholic Mercury supplied as the philosophical beginning.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Crystalline heaven
The crystal-related forms describe a crystalline or crystal-like condition; στερέμνιον marks solidity.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Ctesippus
Ctesippus is Hippothales’ teasing companion and Menexenus’ cousin.
Lysis
Cube
Kybos is the cube, a solid figure with equal square faces.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Cunning and policy
Cunning is strategic cleverness, here often given a morally suspicious colouring.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Curiosity
Curiosity is a desire to know whose value depends on its direction, measure and relation to other inward powers.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Curious
Curious may mean finely or exquisitely made, ingenious, choice, or delicate; it can also describe an eager investigator.
Centuries of Meditations
Curse
Katara is a curse, and katarasthai means to curse or call down harm.
Alcibiades II
Custom
Custom is an acquired way of thinking or acting, maintained by repetition and social agreement.
Centuries of Meditations
Cycle and period
Periodos is a going around or complete circuit and, by extension, the time needed to complete it.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Cydias
Kydian is the accusative of Cydias, the poet Socrates calls exceptionally wise in ta erōtika, matters of love.
Charmides
Cylinder
Kylindros is a cylinder.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Cypris
Cypris is a name of Aphrodite.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Cyrus
The Persian ruler named with Xerxes as almost the only predecessor Alcibiades supposedly thinks worth mentioning.
Alcibiades 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