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 G
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Gossip
Gossips can be familiar companions or associates, especially women in social company.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Government
Gouvernement concerns the arrangement and exercise of political authority.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Grace
Charis has the range of grace, favour, and gracious benefit.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Grace
Religious grâce is divine favor or assistance freely received; the same French word can also mean elegance or charm.
The Green Notebook
Grace and favor
Charis can mean favor, gratitude, or grace and charm.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Gradation and Compound Interest
Gradation is ordered change by degrees.
Intimate Journals
Grammar
Grammar orders relations among words, but Joubert also extends its analogy to ideas, individual authors and moral association.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Grandson
The grandson is the younger of the narrator's two orphan grandchildren, a Hexagon praised for intelligence and regularity.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Gratitude
Reconnoissance is acknowledgment of what is received, with a scope that can exceed visible success.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Great Architect of the Universe
The Great Architect is an architectural title for divine order.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Great King and Asia
Megas basileus, “Great King,” is the conventional royal designation used here of the Persian ruler; the attested phrase has the accusative megan basilea after para.
Charmides · Lysis
Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid is both a monument and a supposed site of initiation in the book's account.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Great White Brotherhood
The Great White Brotherhood is the spiritual hierarchy said to guide humanity and preserve a wisdom underlying its religious forms.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Great year
Magnus ac mundanus annus is the great or cosmic year; mundi senium the world’s old age, and mundi restitutio its restoration.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Greater and smaller
Meizon and elatton express greater and smaller; pleon and elatton also more and less.
Charmides
Greatness
Greatness can refer to size, extent, power, dignity, or excellence.
Centuries of Meditations
Greatness and Squalor
Megistō is a feminine name associated with greatness; the catalogue qualifies her as much-garlanded.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Greed and stewardship
Greed is not identical with every interest in metallic transmutation.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Greek reading vocabulary — Alcibiades I
The following brief entries cover additional substantive words and idioms.
Alcibiades I
Greek reading vocabulary — Alcibiades II
These shorter records define ordinary words, source forms and secondary expressions in their local use.
Alcibiades II
Greek reading vocabulary — Hipparchus
These shorter records define words and constructions in their local setting.
Hipparchus
Greek reading vocabulary — The Lovers
These shorter records define words and constructions in their local setting.
The Lovers
Greeks and barbarians
Greeks and non-Greek peoples delimit the expanding audience of power and reputation; barbarizein means speaking like a barbarian in the insult directed at uncultured Athenian politicians.
Alcibiades I
Green
Prasinos names a green associated with the leek.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Green sickness
Green sickness is a historical disease-name, retained in this edition rather than replaced by a present-day diagnosis.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Green Stone and Sanguine Essence
The green stone and its sanguine essence occur within the tartar portion of the laboratory catalogue.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Gregory Nazianzen
Nazianzen is Gregory of Nazianzus, the theologian identified by the 2026 edition as the author of the cited oration.
Centuries of Meditations
Gregory the Great
The St Gregory cited on angelic service is identified by the 2026 edition as Gregory the Great.
Centuries of Meditations
Grey and mixed colours
Phaion denotes a grey or dusky colour; meikta means mixed, opposed here to simple colours.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Grey eyes
Glaukos describes a light, gleaming, or grey appearance; in A91 the neuter plural refers to eyes, and the edition translates “grey eyes.”
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Grey Silver Cobalts
Grey silver cobalts are a historical ore category in Khunrath’s discussion of wild silver ores and mountain kinds.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Growth
Auxēsis means growth or increase.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
Growth and decay
Growth includes expansion, unfolding, differentiation, and maturation, while decay ranges from wilting or dieback to the loss that follows reproductive completion.
The Green Notebook
Growth and Decay
The feminine names Physō and Phthimenē are translated “Growth” and “Decay.”
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Growth, amputation and soul-size
Frustum is a severed piece.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Guarantor
A guarantor undertakes assurance for an outcome; Socrates is willing to guarantee happiness under the stated condition of just and temperate action, and Alcibiades calls him secure or reliable.
Alcibiades I
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