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 F
73–108 of 148
First movable
Primum mobile or primum quod mobile means the first nature encountered as movable in the descent from God.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
First plants
Dendra are trees; prōta gives them priority among living things.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Fish
The book preserves both the familiar fish-word and the less familiar καμασῆνες, rendered “fishes.”
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Fitting
These verbs signify fitting or fitting into.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Fitting and appropriate
Prepei means it is fitting or becoming; eprepsen is its past form.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+1 book
Fitting and correspondence
Quadrare, congruere, and convenire concern fitting, agreeing, or corresponding.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Five bodies mixture and the distinct status of ether
The passage speaks of “solid bodies,” στερεὰ σώματα, and names fire, water, air, earth, and ether.
Epinomis
Five springs
The phrase names five springs and enduring or unwearying bronze.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Fixation
Fixation is a making-fixed that participates in the language of persistence and completed preparation.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Fixed and more-than-perfected Mercury
The more-than-perfected Mercury is Azoth regenerated from itself into the universal Stone.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Fixed stars
Aplanēs means non-wandering and describes the fixed stars or their sphere in contrast with the planets.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Flame
Phlox is flame.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Flavour
Chymos and chylos are related terms for juice or flavour; this dossier uses forms from both families.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Flesh
Sarx is flesh, the bodily material that grows and changes with nourishment and regimen.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Floreat
Three Floreat acclamations beneath the owl wish that the catholic Magnesia of the philosophers flourish.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Florentine mechanism
Florentiae means at Florence.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Flower and fruit
Flowers and fruits link beauty with production, ripeness, and what a thought may yield.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Flowers
Flowers are the living ornaments and products of the earth.
Centuries of Meditations · The Green Notebook
Fluid
Fluidity can be a property of a material, the ease with which a sound flows, or the imagined medium in which beauty nourishes the soul.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Fluidity and melting
Chysis concerns flowing, pouring, or diffusion.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Fog
Fog is the medium that makes differences of distance visible through differences of brightness.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Following an expert and contributing a judgment
Epakolouthein means to follow along, here intellectually following what a craftsman says.
The Lovers
Following an explanation
Hepomai means follow; keep up with an explanation.
Lysis
Following and consistency
Akoloutheō means follow; keep up; conform to an earlier statement.
Lysis
Following effluence
Hepesthai means to follow; athroai describes the emissions as gathered or occurring in a mass.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Folly
Folie and fou range across play, mistaken opinions and claims about illness; the same English equivalent cannot safely explain every occurrence.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Fond of companions
Philetairos means fond of companions; a lover of companionship.
Lysis
Food
Σιτίον means food; its plural σιτία occurs both of a horse’s feed and of food in the later analogy.
Hipparchus · The Lovers+1 book
Food making lawful eating and the first necessities
Allēlophagia is the eating of one another; edōdē is eating or food, here qualified as lawful.
Epinomis
Food, lending and borrowing life
Alimentum, alimonia and nutrimentum refer to food and nourishment in related constructions.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Food, truth, and the hungry mind
The several words for food support an extended analogy between bodily assimilation and intellectual nourishment.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Foot
Pous is a foot.
Stobaeus, Volume I
For the sake of
Heneka means for the sake of; for the purpose of; on account of.
Lysis
Force
Force is effective power, physical or inward strength, and the vigor with which an activity is performed.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Fore-work and After-work
The Vorarbeit and Nacharbeit are the first and second divisions of preparation on page 46.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Foreign-sounding Greek
Hypobarbarizō means speak somewhat foreign-sounding or imperfect Greek.
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