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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
145–163 of 163
Dream and reverie
Rêve and songe can designate sleep dreams or imagined scenes; rêverie often suggests a waking drift of thought and feeling.
The Green Notebook
Dreams voices oracles and the limits of a report
Hypnos is sleep; oneiropolia dreaming or a dream experience.
Epinomis
Dreams, horn and ivory
Onar is a dream.
Charmides
Drink and wetness
Ποτόν is drink, literally what is drunk; ὑγρός means wet or liquid; τροφή means nourishment.
Hipparchus
Drinking, play, and consistency of law and conduct
Symposion is a drinking party or drinking together; sympotēs a fellow drinker; sympaistēs a companion in play.
Minos
Dropides and ancestral Critias
Drōpidou is the genitive of Dropides.
Charmides
Drug and remedy
Pharmakon is a substance or preparation with an active effect, here a remedy.
Charmides · Lysis+1 book
Drunkenness
Methyō means be drunk; be intoxicated.
Lysis
Dryness
Xēron names what is dry or the quality of dryness.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Dryness and moisture
Dryness and moisture are physical qualities used in physiological summaries and compact material comparisons.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Ductility
Ductility concerns matter’s capacity to be extended or worked.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Due matter and subject
The due matter or due subject is what is appropriate and required for the intended work.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Dumb dog
The dumb dog on p. 182 is what the truth-loving philosopher must refuse to become.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Dung for balsam
“One thing for another, dung for balsam” is the substitution that Khunrath means to prevent by teaching readers how to distinguish true Magnesia from false candidates.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Duration and instant
Duration concerns continuance or a span; instant isolates a moment within succession.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Dust
Dust can make apparent mass seem slight, or hinder the movement of something light.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Duty
Devoir names what ought to be done, and is not automatically identical with social propriety or present inclination.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Dyad
Dyas means dyad or two.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Dyad and mixture
Mixture joins unlike constituents without necessarily changing one into another.
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