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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 G
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G
G is a Masonic emblem to which the book assigns several meanings and a condition of institutional recognition.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Gainful and without gain
Κερδαλέος means gainful or profitable, describing what brings or constitutes gain.
Hipparchus
Garden
A garden is a cultivated space combining useful growth with beauty and pleasure.
Centuries of Meditations · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Garden, rosebush and fountain
The garden, rosebush and fountain express quicksilver’s reduction into water and its power to nourish, generate and produce white and red sulfurous forms.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Garment of soul and intellect
Chitōn is a tunic or garment.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Garment, mud and misleading shadows
Vestis is clothing, testa a hardened earthen crust, gleba a clod.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Geber
Geber is named twice in the primary marginalia, once as a transmitter of a maxim and once as a respected but subordinate authority.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Geber, Ripley, and Paracelsus
These three names form an explicitly limited declaration of allegiance.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Gender
Gender is the seventh principle, interpreted as complementary initiating and generating functions in every kind of creation.
The Kybalion
Genealogy and homonymy
Homōnymos means “bearing the same name.”
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
General and arms
Stratēgos is a general or military commander; stratia is an army or force.
Hipparchus
Generality and qualification
This heading gathers the ordinary expressions that restrict the dialogue’s claims: of some things, for some people, in a certain condition, if indeed, seldom and for the most part.
Alcibiades II
Generalship courage and the need for good fortune
Polemikos concerns war; stratēgikos concerns the general's expertise.
Epinomis
Generalship, exile and informers
Stratēgia is generalship; phygades are exiles; sykophantai are informers or malicious prosecutors.
Alcibiades II
Generated
Genētos describes what has an origin through coming to be.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Generation
Génération can mean begetting or the succession of people born into an inherited world.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Generation, corruption and self-preservation
Genitor is a begetter and genitum what is begotten.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Generation, nutrition and seminal forms
Generation brings a form or living unity into being; nutrition extends and sustains that generative activity.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Generosity
Generous describes a noble or large-hearted disposition, not simply the giving of money.
Centuries of Meditations
Generous
Generous can mean noble in birth, disposition or spirit; generosity can mean greatness of spirit.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Geniture
“Geniture” concerns birth and, in Burton's astrological passages, the celestial configuration at birth or its chart and written judgement.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Genius
Génie can be a creative or intellectual power, or the distinctive spirit attributed to a literature or people.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook+1 book
Genius and natural spirit
Genius can suggest an individual disposition or characteristic power; natural spirit names a class of subtle created agents.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Genius, Delirium, and Unreason
The book places exceptional capacity near forms of unreason without declaring them identical.
René
Gentleness
Gentleness is a considerate, unviolent manner of acting toward another.
Centuries of Meditations
Gentleness and sweetness
Douceur connects an affective quality with sweetness perceived through taste or style.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Genuineness
Gnēsios means genuine; authentic.
Lysis
Genus and kind
Genos means kind; class or category.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Geographical inclination
Klima can denote an inclination or a region associated with geographical orientation.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Geometrical point
Stigmē names a point.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Geometry and the making alike of unlike numbers
Geōmetria literally suggests land-measuring.
Epinomis
George Sand, Good Sense, and Hell
George Sand is a named writer turned into a polemical figure in XLVIII–L. The sustained attack joins aesthetic judgment, theological disagreement, misogynistic abuse, and fantasies of personal aggression.
Intimate Journals
Gestation
Dekamēnos and heptamēnos express ten-month and seven-month periods.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Gesture and the speaking body
Bodies communicate through posture, touch, color, tears and interrupted movement.
René
Gift
A gift is something bestowed by a giver upon a recipient.
Centuries of Meditations
Gift of God
The gift is not a loose synonym for a desirable discovery.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
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