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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Horse-lover
Philippos means fond of horses; a horse-lover.
Lysis
Horse-rearing
The participle hippotrophēkotos denotes having kept or reared horses.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Horseman and horse
Hippikos means equestrian or skilled in horsemanship; the text’s hippikon andra, an accusative phrase, is rendered “a horseman.”
Hipparchus
Horsemen, eclipse and the Euphrates
Eclipse and armed riders express corruption, dissolution, volatility, and the removal of foreign qualities.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Horses, dogs, oxen, and the change of knower
Hippos means horse; kyōn means dog; bous means ox or bovine animal, rendered “ox” here.
The Lovers
Hospital
A hospital or Hospitall can be an institution of shelter, maintenance or care, not only a place of medical treatment.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Hospitality
Xenismos means receiving or entertaining a guest.
Lysis · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Hostility
Polemios means hostile; at enmity.
Lysis
Hot springs
Aquam calescere means that water becomes hot; aquis transcursus names the waters' passage.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
House, lineage and nobility
Oikia can mean a dwelling, household, or family line; its sense must be set by context.
Charmides
Household and city
Oikia can mean house, household or family; polis names a city as a political community.
Charmides · The Lovers
Household management
Οἰκονομικός at 133e describes someone competent to manage a household.
Alcibiades I · The Lovers+1 book
Hudson and the dual mind
Thomson Jay Hudson is the modern writer explicitly named in the discussion of two minds.
The Kybalion
Hugo
The author whose Lucrèce Borgia occasions a detailed account of two contrary powers within one imagination.
The Green Notebook
Human being
Ἄνθρωπος denotes a human being.
Alcibiades I · Hipparchus+2 books
Human nature
Homme often names humanity collectively, while nature humaine may name the tendencies an argument seeks to defend or discipline.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Humane learning
Humanity can name secular or humanistic learning, especially language and literature, in contrast with divinity or theology.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Humanity
Humanité in these passages means humane feeling or conduct, rather than simply the human species.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Humanity
Humanity here names a field of learning concerned with human nature, its faculties, desires, ends, and happiness.
Centuries of Meditations
Humbling
Tapeinoō means humble, lower someone’s self-estimation.
Lysis
Humiliation and glorification
The Stone's “state of humiliation or emptying-out” is Khunrath's own Latin description of the uncompleted but truly recognized subject at p. 168.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Humility
Humilité names a fitting relation of the person to God, and can be reflected imperfectly in a desire to please other people.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Humoral qualities
Heat, coldness, moisture and dryness are the principal bodily qualities used in Burton’s humoral explanations.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Humors
Humeur can name a bodily fluid or a disposition of mood.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Hunger
Peinaō means be hungry; hunger.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Hunter
Thēreutēs means hunter; a figure for courtship and for inquiry.
Lysis
Hunting skill and magnificence
Thēreutikē is the art of hunting, a feminine adjective used substantivally.
Epinomis
Hymn
Hymnos is a hymn or song of praise; hymnein is to sing or celebrate in this manner.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Hymn-singers
Hymnopoloi are makers or performers of hymns, rendered “singers of hymns” here.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Hypochondria
Hypocondries are the upper abdominal regions beneath the ribs.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is a false appearance of goodness or conformity presented to secure approval.
Centuries of Meditations
Hypostatic union
A hypostatic union is a union at the level of person.
Centuries of Meditations · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Hypothesis
The hypothesis vocabulary appears here chiefly as verbs: to put down, suppose or lay down.
Charmides · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
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