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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 E
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Embedded quotation
An embedded quotation is wording cited within a later author’s account.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Embodiment
Ensōmatōsis is embodiment, the soul’s coming to be in or association with a body.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Embryo
Embryon names the offspring developing in the womb.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Embryonic Ores
The ore catalogue of pages 75–78 identifies mineral and metallic materials rejected as the pri-material field because they are already embryonated and specified.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Emergencies
Emergencies are events as they emerge or occur.
Centuries of Meditations
Eminence
By way of eminence means in a higher, more excellent manner.
Centuries of Meditations
Emmaus
The Emmaus disciples exemplify seeing something present without recognizing it.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Emotional disturbance
Thorybeō means disturb, throw into confusion; in the passive, be unsettled.
Lysis
Empedoclea
Empedoclea is the Latin title or designation of Sallustius’ Empedoclean poem in Cicero’s letter.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Emphasis
Emphase concerns rhetorical amplification or inflated speech, not merely stressing an important word.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Empiric medicine
Pliny explains empiricen through experimenta, experiences or trials.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Emptiness
Emptiness is the absence of contents or of a satisfying relation to them.
Centuries of Meditations
Empty
Kenos means empty.
Lysis
Emptying and depletion
Kenōsis means emptying; the process of making empty.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Empyrean heaven
Caelum empyreum is the named heaven; prorsus immobile means wholly motionless.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Emulation
Emulation is the impulse to match or surpass another.
Centuries of Meditations
Enchanting
Kēleō means charm, enchant, captivate.
Lysis
Encomium
Enkōmion means song of praise; encomium.
Lysis
End
Telos can be an end reached, a goal sought, or the completion of a process.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
End and means
An end is the purpose for which something exists or an activity is pursued; means are what bring that purpose about.
Centuries of Meditations
End of the world
The world's end in Fusées XXII is primarily an end of meaningful spiritual and moral life, even if material existence continues.
Intimate Journals
Enemy
Echthros means hostile; an enemy; in the neuter, something hostile or inimical.
Lysis · Centuries of Meditations
Energy
Literary energy is a power of expression whose value depends on what it accomplishes and how it is governed.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Enfolding and unfolding
Implicare can fold or gather together, explicare unfold or set forth, and replicare fold back or repeat.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Enjoyment
To enjoy is to possess or have the use of a good with conscious delight.
Centuries of Meditations
Enlargement
To enlarge is to make more spacious or extensive.
Centuries of Meditations
Enmity
Echthra means enmity; hostility.
Lysis
Ennui
Ennui is more than unfilled leisure: it can arise from repetitive reasoning or insufficient thoughts, while duty can counter it.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · René
Ennui and aversion
Ennui includes boredom, weariness, and the oppression of life without satisfying engagement.
The Green Notebook · René
Ensouled
Empsychos means having soul or animated by soul.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Ensouling and genaturing
To ensoul is to give the subject its living formative principle; to genature, in Khunrath's hybrid vocabulary, is to give it nature.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Entertainment
To entertain can mean to receive, accommodate, occupy, or delight someone; entertainment includes the provision offered to a guest or to the mind.
Centuries of Meditations
Enthusiasm
Enthousiasme can be an inspired or emotionally moving power.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Enthusiastic Cabala
The two enthusiastic expressions stand in Khunrath's p. 135 margin beside the first of his ways of knowing.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Enthusiastic Sophia
Sophia Enthusiastica is the wisdom sought in the prayer on p. 173.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Entrusting and permitting
Epitrepō means entrust, permit; give someone control of a task or property.
Lysis
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