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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 D
73–108 of 163
Dimension and distance
Diastasis concerns extension or separation over an extent.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Diminution
Meiōsis is decrease in amount, size, or extent.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Dionysius and the writing-master’s school
Dionysios is the personal name Dionysius, the owner or master of the establishment into which Socrates enters.
The Lovers
Dionysius, Daniel and numerical orders
The numerical adjectives refer to three, nine, seven and twelve as ways of distinguishing orders.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Discernment
Discernement is discriminating apprehension.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Discontent
Discontent is the troubled sense that one’s condition or possessions do not suffice.
Centuries of Meditations
Discord and the soul’s persistence
The discord vocabulary ranges over opposed opinions and affections, disagreement of elements and humors, and discordant parts of soul and body.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Discovery
The heuriskō family concerns finding or discovering, with compounds that can emphasize finding out or locating.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+3 books
Discrimination and separation
Diakrisis is separation or distinction.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Disease
Kamnō means be ill; be in a suffering or weakened condition.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Disgrace
Oneidos names reproach, a disgrace or what brings reproach.
Charmides
Disgraceful ignorance
Ἀμαθία is lack of learning or understanding and can carry the reproach of stupidity.
Alcibiades I
Dishonor
Atimia is dishonor or deprivation of esteem.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Disorder
Ataxia is disorder; ataktos is disordered or unarranged.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Dispersion and concentration
Dispergere scatters; distrahere draws apart.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Disputing a claim
Amphisbēteō means dispute a claim; disagree about which of two has it.
Lysis
Dissolution
Dialysis is dissolution or a taking apart.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Dissolution and Reduction
Dissolution loosens a body or brings it into a dissolved condition; reduction names its return into first matter.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Distillation and the Helm
The Helm is the head of the distilling apparatus in the supplied edition’s explanation of the phrase “driven right over the helm.”
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Distinction
Distinction can concern different concepts, different words, or maintained social differences.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Distraction
Distraction can mean mental distress or derangement, but also bodily disorder and the complications that obstruct classification.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Distribution and tending
Nemein means to distribute, allot, or deal out; it also means to pasture or tend animals.
Minos
Divaricated
Divaricated means spread apart, branching out, or splayed.
Centuries of Meditations
Divination
Mantikē is divination; mantis a diviner or seer.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+3 books
Divine
As a noun, a divine is a theologian or clergyman; divinity is theological learning or the profession concerned with it, but can also mean divine nature or status.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Divine allotment, accompaniment, and childhood
Moira is a share or allotment and, in appropriate contexts, a lot or destiny.
Theages
Divine ascent
“Divine ascent” gathers a group of images, not an exact technical expression in the text.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Divine breast
Pectus is breast or heart as a seat of inward capacity; divini qualifies it as divine.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Divine care memory emotion and complete knowledge
Epimeleisthai is to care for or attend to; aparamythētos means not to be soothed or won over.
Epinomis
Divine generation and the work of likening
Theogonia is the generation of gods; zōiogonia the generation of living beings.
Epinomis
Divine grace
Grâce in this witness is divine grace, distinguished by its divine possessors.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Divine guidance and the conditions of teaching
Hyphēgeisthai is to lead the way or guide.
Epinomis
Divine inspiration
Enthousiasmos is divine inspiration, a state understood as involving the divine.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Divine likeness
Θεῖος means divine; θειότερον is its comparative, more divine.
Alcibiades I
Divine movement disclosure and need
Theios means divine or connected with the gods; its superlative theiotatos means most divine.
Minos
Divine opposition
A divine opposition is the restraint Socrates gives as the cause of his long silence toward Alcibiades.
Alcibiades I · Theages
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