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 H
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Habit
Habitude names an acquired disposition or recurring way of acting.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Habit and disposition
To be disposed is to stand in a particular condition or orientation toward an action or person.
Alcibiades II · Stobaeus, Volume I+2 books
Habit, purification and intellectual experiment
Consuetudo is habituation or long familiarity.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Hades
The two forms are genitives of the name Hades.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Hail
Chalaza is hail.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Hair
Thrix means hair; an individual hair, with plural often referring to the hair collectively.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+2 books
Hallelujah and Amen
Three Hallelujahs appear in the p. 187 subscription after the invocation of the Spirit of Wisdom.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Hallelujah and subscription
The p. 187 subscription summarizes how the author claims to have spoken, gives thanks for assistance, rejects the Devil and supplies his name and titles.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Hallucination
Hallucination is the imagined image's power to eclipse what is actually before the eyes.
Intimate Journals
Halo
The halo gives sacred or poetic distinction the comic vulnerability of a detachable object.
Intimate Journals
Hand
Cheir is the hand, a bodily member whose distinct action can illustrate a logical point.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Hand-grips and Instruments
Hand-grips are practical manipulations, while instruments and work-tackle are the material means of performance.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Happiness
Bonheur may name a sustained pleasant condition, a moral good or a favorable portion of life that supports virtue.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Happiness and flourishing
Eudaimonia names happiness or a fortunate, successful condition of life; the adjective eudaimōn and verb eudaimonein describe being happy.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+2 books
Harbours
Limenes and limenessin are forms of the word for harbours.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Hard
Sklēros is hard or resistant.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Hard to capture
Dysalōtos means hard to capture or win.
Lysis
Hardening and texture
Several fragments explain bodily differences through hardening, density, looseness, and moisture.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Hardness and softness
Hard and soft describe different capacities to receive force, bear tools, and retain form.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Harm
Blabē means harm; damage done or suffered.
Lysis
Harming
Blaptō means harm; damage; in the passive, be harmed.
Lysis
Harmodius and Aristogeiton
Ἁρμόδιος and Ἀριστογείτων are Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the men who killed Hipparchus.
Hipparchus
Harmony
Harmonia denotes a fitting together or harmony.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+3 books
Harmony and the strings
Harmony is the concord produced when strings are appropriately moved together.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Harpocrates
The classical figure with a finger at his mouth becomes a compact emblem of inward reserve.
The Green Notebook · Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Hatred
Miseō means hate; in the passive, be hated.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+2 books
Head
Kephalē is the head.
Charmides · Stobaeus, Volume I
Head, heart, and members
Cor is heart, cerebrum brain, iecur liver; caput head.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Health
Hygieia means health.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
Health and illness
Hygieia is health, a condition and a product of medicine.
Charmides · Alcibiades II+3 books
Hearing
Akoē denotes hearing, either as a faculty or as the occurrence of auditory perception.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Hearing and sound
Akoē is hearing; akouein is to hear.
Charmides · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Heart
Kardia is the heart.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+6 books
Heart and mistaken location
Cor, attested as corde, means heart.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Heat
Thermon, used substantivally, is “the hot.” It can identify a quality, a causal power, or something proposed as an elemental constituent.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Heat, moisture and tempering
Heat, cold, moisture and dryness are qualities whose effects depend on a subject's stage, mixture and proportion.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume 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