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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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Everlasting leaves and fruit
The paired compounds in B77.78 describe steadfast leaves and steadfast fruit.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Evidence
Tekmairesthai is to infer from an indication; tekmērion is a sign or evidence on which a conclusion rests.
Charmides · Minos+3 books
Evidence
Évidence chiefly concerns intellectual manifestness in these witnesses, not a collection of facts offered in support of an argument.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Evil
Kakon can name an evil, a bad condition, or something harmful.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Ex traduce
“ex traduce” means by propagation or transmission from a parent.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Examination
Exetazein means examine or test closely.
Charmides
Example
An example is a case or model that teaches, illustrates, or invites imitation.
Centuries of Meditations
Excellency
Excellency is the quality by which something is especially good, admirable, or fit for its purpose.
Centuries of Meditations
Excess and greed
Pleonexia is the tendency to have or seek more than one’s share.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Exchange and reconciliation
Mutuare and mutuari express lending or giving and borrowing or receiving; vicissim marks reciprocity.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Excluded middle and the third condition
“Excluded middle” is an analytical heading for the alternatives discussed, not the dialogue’s own name for a logical law.
Alcibiades II
Excrements
Excrements and singular excrement can mean bodily waste or residual matter generally, including humoral residues and secretions, as well as faeces specifically.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Exemplars of bodily motion in soul
Exemplaria are patterns or higher counterparts, not bodily movements copied at a smaller scale.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Exhalation
Anathymiasis names material rising from below, especially from earth or water.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Exile and the Peloponnese
Kathodos is return, often with political force in a context of exclusion.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Exile and wandering
Phygas is an exile or fugitive; alētēs a wanderer.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Existence
Existence names that something is, but Joubert tests what existing means for a sensing creature, a physical object, and an imagined thing.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Expatiate
To expatiate is to range freely over a spacious field.
Centuries of Meditations
Expectation
Expectation is an attentive anticipation of something not yet disclosed or possessed.
Centuries of Meditations
Experience
Expérience ranges from lived or accumulated experience to an experiment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Experience and testimony
Experientia and Erfarung name experience offered as evidence.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Expert writings and the authority of a text
A syngramma is something written: a composition, treatise, or written account.
Minos
Expository hypothesis
The first phrase means on a hypothesis or supposition; the second, supplied as Diels’ explanatory gloss in the apparatus, means for the sake of teaching.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Expression
Expression is both the act of making something manifest and a particular verbal formulation.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook
Extended
Diastatos describes extension or dimensionality.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Extension
Étendue names spatial spread, but its English equivalent changes when the concern is magnitude, inward spaciousness, or a philosophical property.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Extinction
Sbesis is extinction, the putting out or dying out of fire or light.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Extraction and Separation
Extraction and separation are operations that can disclose, remove or recover something from a material.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Eye
Ὀφθαλμός and ὄμμα both mean eye.
Alcibiades I · Stobaeus, Volume I+2 books
Eye and gaze
Oculus is an eye; intuitus a look or gaze; contueri and inspicere can behold or inspect.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Eye and imagined enlargement
Oculus is an eye; visus can mean sight or the visual capacity.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Eye and the visible line
The eye provides a situated field of vision, not an unrestricted view of a geometrical object.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Eyes and ears
Joubert distinguishes organs from their powers and uses the eyes and ears as models of inward access.
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