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 E
1–36 of 141
Eager to listen
Philēkoos means fond of hearing; eager to listen to conversation.
Lysis
Ear
Ous is the ear.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Earnest concern
Spoudē means earnest concern; serious attention or effort.
Lysis
Earth
Gē can mean the earth as a region or the earthy constituent of bodies.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+5 books
Earth as mother
Venter is belly or womb; fetus offspring; parere giving birth; alere nourishing.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Earth soul
Anima terrae and terrena vita name the earth’s own living principle.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Earth-Maid
Chthoniē is a feminine name related to the earth.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Earth, wood and severed stones
Saxa are stones; ligna wood or logs.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Earth’s stability
Phora is travel or locomotion; kyathoi are ladles or small vessels.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Earthly life rooted beings and the qualified charge of disorder
Gēinos means earthly or made predominantly of earth.
Epinomis
Earthquake
Seismos denotes an earthquake or shaking.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Eastern winds
Euros can name a particular easterly wind, while its plural can group winds of the eastern quarter.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Echo
Echo relates a returned sound to its source, but it can signify resonant space, illuminating correspondence, or dependence mistaken for originality.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Eclipse
Ekleipsis concerns an eclipse or disappearance of a heavenly light.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Ecstasy
Burton’s “Extasie,” “Extasis,” and plural “Extasies” or “extasies” describe a trance or transport beyond ordinary awareness.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Eden
Eden is the garden of the first human life in Genesis.
Centuries of Meditations
Edmond de Cazalès
The companion on the first journey to Saint-Malo, printed as C... and identified by the historical editor.
The Green Notebook
Education
Education is formation through teaching and learning; training is repeated preparation or practice; paraskeuē is preparation or equipment.
Alcibiades I · Hipparchus+6 books
Effluence
Aporrhoia is a flowing away or outflow.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Effluvia
Effluvions are invisible outflows or emanations imagined as passing between beings.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Effusion
An effusion is a pouring forth.
Centuries of Meditations
Egg-shaped cosmos
The comparison is literally to an egg: the cosmos lies in a manner resembling one.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Egypt Syria and Greek appropriation
Barbaros here identifies the non-Greek observer and the peoples from whom Greek learners receive celestial knowledge.
Epinomis
Eight motions and the cold-water objection
The eight motions comprise qualitative alteration, coming-to-be, corruption, increase, decrease, condensation, rarefaction and progression or locomotion.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Eight powers and equal celestial kinship
Dynamis is a power or capacity; in this passage the plural names the eight celestial powers.
Epinomis
Elasticity
Elasticity concerns a capacity to yield and recover.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Elder and linen
B93 says that a grain of gray elder is mingled with fine linen.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Election and worthiness
The true subject is publicly visible but its recognition is said to be given to very few.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Elegance
Élégance is a valued refinement of form, but its appropriateness matters more than its mere presence.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Elegiac verse and sayings
Ἐλεγεῖον denotes elegiac verse, particularly the elegiac couplet formed by a hexameter followed by a pentameter.
Hipparchus
Element
An element is a constituent from which something is composed.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+3 books
Elemental release
“Elements” is Arnold’s English address to the powers of the natural world; “sea of fire” intensifies the crater’s image.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Elements, conjunction and the inward orderer
Concursus and concursio are a coming together of constituents; ordinator is what orders their meeting.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Élie de Kertanguy
The friend named in the March 6 conversation and the May 9 gathering of beech leaves.
The Green Notebook
Elixir and Tincture
Elixir and tincture are names for powerful prepared agents, with distinctions of universal or specified scope.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Eloquence
Éloquence concerns effective, pleasurable and intelligible expression across public speech, history and philosophy.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume 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