Words · Meanings · Passages
Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,850 entries across 24 collectionsTerms beginning with E
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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 · The Anatomy of Melancholy
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
Envy
Φθονεῖν means to envy, begrudge or withhold something through resentment of another’s enjoyment.
Hipparchus · Epinomis+4 books
Envy, malice and hatred
Envy is sorrow at another person’s good; Burton’s fuller account also includes joy at that person’s harm.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Epic
Epic is a poetic form whose scale, world, action and audience must fit together.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Epicure
Epicure can mean a pleasure-seeker in hostile moral language or an Epicurean associated with the ancient philosopher.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Epigram
Epigramma designates a short inscriptive or commemorative composition, but can also carry mockery.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Epithalamium
An epithalamium is a wedding song.
Centuries of Meditations
Epithemes
An epithem is a moist medicinal application placed externally, often on linen over an affected part.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Equal visual blend
The phrases mean “from both in equal shares” and “the blend from equals.”
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Equality
Isotēs expresses equality, whether of amounts, shares, or relations.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+4 books
Equilateral
An equilateral triangle has three equal sides and three angles of sixty degrees.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Equilibrium
Equilibrium is a balance among forces, parts, or dispositions.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Equinox
Isēmeria is an equinox, defined through equality of day and night.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Equity
Équité supplies a proportional and inwardly discriminating rule; droiture names the uprightness expected of judgment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Erchia
The place where Alcibiades’ landed holding is located; the Greek form is locative, “at Erchia.”
Alcibiades I
Erotic rivalry and victory
Erastai are lovers; kallinikos means fair-victorious or winning a fine victory, echoed from Euripides’ victorious garlands.
Alcibiades II · The Lovers
Errata and textual repair
The original Errata are part of the surviving book's instructions for reading itself.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Error
The ἁμαρτ- family means making a mistake, failing, or going wrong.
Alcibiades I · Alcibiades II+3 books
Error and wrongdoing
Hamartia and hamartēma concern error or wrongdoing, with the latter often naming a particular offense.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Erudition
Erudition is learned investigation and possession of historical or literary materials.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Escaping notice
The lanthanō family expresses escaping someone’s notice.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+1 book
Esoteric and occult
Esoteric, occult, secret, and arcane indicate hidden or restricted knowledge.
The Kybalion · Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Essence
Essence can identify what constitutes a thing, what is indispensable to its character, or the concentrated content of a larger work.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Essenes
The Essenes are a Jewish religious community invoked as an example of disciplined, selective, and symbolically taught spiritual life.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Essential and Elemental Fire
The two fires are distinguished on page 69 in explaining corporeal running mercuries.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Estate and fourfold estate
Estate can mean a state or condition of life, as well as the property and resources belonging to someone.
Centuries of Meditations · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Esteem
Estime is an appraisal of worth, but what receives esteem and what deserves it need not coincide.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Eternity
Eternity is distinguished from pure duration and used to relativize the span of human life.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry Lexicon
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry · R. Swinburne Clymer
131 entries · 495 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
295 entries · 6,097 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Kybalion Lexicon
The Kybalion · Three Initiates
92 entries · 347 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I Lexicon
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I · Attributed to Abraham the Jew
138 entries · 541 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