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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
109–144 of 163
Divine production and the third essence
Individuum means an indivisible something here, not primarily a modern individual person.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Divine roots
The forms are the accusative plural “gods” in Aëtius and the nominative plural in Aristotle.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Divine spirit
Daimōn can designate a divine power or spirit.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+3 books
Divine status
The Greek phrases distinguish being treated “as a god,” being spoken of as one who has become a god, and securing an opinion “as about a god.”
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Divinely inspired breath
Epipnoia is a breathing upon or inspiration.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Divinity and the divine
Divinitas is divinity; divinus can describe God, a created thing’s relation to God, or an honorific religious quality.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Divisible
Meristos describes what is divided or admits division.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Division
Diairesis is division; related forms express whether something can be divided.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Division and indivisibility
Dividing matter, dividing an account into parts, and declaring a unity indivisible are different operations.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II+2 books
Division and parts
Meros is a part or share; merē its plural.
Alcibiades II
Doctor
Iatros means doctor; a practitioner believed competent to treat an illness.
Lysis
Doctor and trainer as judges of measure
Iatros means doctor, a practitioner concerned with bodily illness and health.
The Lovers
Doctrine and conviction
Dogma is a settled view, conviction, or doctrine.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Documents
Documents here are lessons, teachings, or instructions.
Centuries of Meditations
Dodecagon
A dodecagon is a plane polygon with twelve sides.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Dog-lover
Philokyōn means fond of dogs; a dog-lover.
Lysis
Dogma
Dogme can mean a revealed religious teaching, a reasoned metaphysical position, or the doctrinal force that makes morality binding.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Doing good things
The expression names the doing of good things, with τῶν ἀγαθῶν a substantivised genitive plural specifying what is done.
Charmides
Doing one's own business
The formula literally means doing one's own things.
Charmides · Alcibiades I
Dominion
Dominion is authority or rule over a domain.
Centuries of Meditations · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Dooms
The plural Kēres denotes dooms or destructive death-bearing powers.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Door and entrance
The right door is Magnesia as Nature's first-material entrance to the Art.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Doors and houses
A Flatland house encloses an area in the plane.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Dotage
Dotage may name disordered reasoning, delusion, mental impairment or foolish attachment.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Double
Diplasios expresses doubling or a twofold relation.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Double and half
Diplasion means double or twice as much; hēmisy, represented by the genitive hēmiseos here, means half.
Charmides
Doubling power and proportion
Diplasios means double; its neuter to diplasion names the double or doubling relation.
Epinomis
Dowries
Aproikos means without a dowry; proikizō means to provide one.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Doxography and Aëtius
Doxography records opinions, commonly arranging them under questions such as what the principles are, how the heavens formed, or how a sense works.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Dramatic irony
Dramatic irony arises when the reader can understand an implication unavailable or unspoken within the conversation.
Alcibiades II
Dramatic time and setting
Dramatic time is the date implied for the conversation, distinct from the date of composition, the dates of later historical events, and the dates of manuscripts or printed editions.
Alcibiades I
Draughts
To petteutikon means what belongs to playing a board game with pieces, or the relevant skill.
Charmides · Alcibiades I
Drawing
Dessin may concern the act of drawing, a work’s design, or its outlined form.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Dreadful
Dreadful can mean awe-inspiring, solemnly majestic, or fearfully great.
Centuries of Meditations
Dreadful and formidable
Deinos means dreadful, formidable, impressively capable; the sense changes with context.
Lysis
Dream
Onar means a dream; here, in a dream.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+3 books
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