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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
37–72 of 111
Gifts and divine bribery
Dōra are gifts; dōrodokoi, literally takers of gifts, is the familiar vocabulary of bribe-taking.
Alcibiades II
Gifts and liberality
A gift may be something handed over, an ability or resource bestowed on someone, an official grant, or the right to make such a grant.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Girardin and Journalistic Reasoning
Girardin in Fusées X and Mon cœur XXVI is Émile de Girardin, the journalist targeted by the notebook’s quoted ridicule.
Intimate Journals
Gladness
Gēthosynē is gladness or joyfulness.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Glass
Glass and its spellings glasse and glas can name a mirror, the material itself, a vessel or an optical instrument.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Glass and colored radiance
Vitrum is glass, vitreus glass-made, fenestra a window, and pavimentum a paved floor.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Glass and crystal
Glass and crystal give perceptible form to transparency, apparent depth, and the doubling of an object through resemblance.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Glass-ores
Glass-ores are a named historical ore category in the embryonated-material argument.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Glaucon
Glaukōnos is the genitive of Glaukōn, used in the patronymic identifying Charmides.
Charmides
Glory
Gloire concerns recognition or the distinction attached to an achievement, and is repeatedly separated from moral improvement and intrinsic merit.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Glyphics and hieroglyphics
Glyphics and hieroglyphics name signs through which concealed teaching is believed to be expressed.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Gnomon
Gnōmōn has several uses.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Gnosis
Gnosis is spiritual knowledge or understanding.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Gnostics and Manichaeans
Gnostics and Manichaeans are religious groups invoked as preservers and transmitters of concealed spiritual teaching amid persecution.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
God
Theos is god; theios is divine, with a comparative meaning more divine.
Alcibiades I · Stobaeus, Volume I+8 books
God and the Great All
God names divine reality in several theological registers.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
God as mirror
The phrase describes god as the finest reflective medium through which the person would see and know himself.
Alcibiades I
Gods and divine giving
The dialogue alternates between the god Alcibiades is approaching and gods in the plural.
Alcibiades II
Gods themselves or god made images
Theos is a god; eikōn an image or likeness; agalma an object of honor or delight, here a divine image compared with a statue.
Epinomis
Godsend
Hermaion is a lucky find or windfall, associated in its name with Hermes.
Charmides
Goethe and German literature
Goethe’s memoirs occasion Guérin’s most sustained comparison of literary education.
The Green Notebook
Gold
Gold is the metal, the fixed solar spirit and the subject whose perfected powers the work seeks to disclose and communicate.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Gold and silver
Χρυσίον means gold, including gold treated as a valuable material; ἀργύριον means silver and can also denote money.
Hipparchus · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Gold-quartz
Gold-quartz is named among the proposed subjects on page 34.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Golden age
Κρόνος is Cronus, the divine ruler associated here with a happy earlier age.
Hipparchus · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Golden band
Strophion is a band or strip used in dress; the edition renders it a girdle in the Life.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Golden Rule
The positive Golden Rule appears on p. 154 in the account of wealthy stewardship.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Golgotha
Golgotha is the place of Christ’s crucifixion, glossed within Traherne’s prayer as the place of a skull.
Centuries of Meditations
Good
Agathos means good; beneficial or excellent; of a person, good in character.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
Good and evil
Agathon and kakon are neuter singular forms of the adjectives “good” and “bad”; with the article they can name what is good or bad.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+7 books
Good men
Agathoi andres means good men, with both words masculine plural.
Charmides
Good sense and common sense
Bon sens and sens commun are explicitly distinguished in a sustained comparison and therefore require different English terms.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Good, fine, and shameful
Agathos is good; kalos is fine, admirable, or beautiful; aischros is shameful or ugly.
Minos
Goodness
Bonté is the goodness of a person or soul, not merely correct behavior observed from outside.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Gorgias
Leontinon is the ethnic designation “of Leontini”; discipulus is the Latin word for pupil.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Gospel
Gospel means the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ.
Centuries of Meditations
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