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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,297 entries across 21 collectionsTerms beginning with I
1–36 of 128
Ice
Krystallos denotes ice in the selected classification.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Icosahedron
Eikosaedron is a solid with twenty faces.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Idea
Idea can refer to form or character.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Idea
Idée names an intellectual content or apprehension.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Ideas, natural ascent and rest
An Idea is an eternal exemplary intelligible principle.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Ignorance
Anepistēmosynē is lack of epistēmē, explicitly paired with it in the account of temperance.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+6 books
Ignorance of the best
The phrase specifies ignorance by its object: what is best.
Alcibiades II
Ill-omened words
Blasphēmein here is to utter ill-omened words in a religious setting.
Alcibiades II
Illusion
Illusion can be an art’s pleasurable appearance, a relation through which sense apprehends an object, or a misleading claim to truth.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Illustrate
To illustrate can mean to make illustrious, illuminate with splendour, or shed glory upon.
Centuries of Meditations
Image
Eidōlon means image; likeness that may stand in for something else.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+4 books
Image and likeness
Eikōn is an image or likeness understood in relation to an original.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum+2 books
Image in imagination
Phantasma is an image associated with imagination, distinguished from phantasia as the image-presenting activity.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Image, shadow and ranked truth
Imago and simulacrum are images or likenesses; umbra is shadow.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Images, intentions, and conjecturing substance
Simulacrum, imago and effigies name likenesses or representations.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Images, migration and the perfect agent
Insinuare means inserting or insinuating into; the proposed transfer is rejected.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Imagination
Imagination gives body, figure or inward visibility to what otherwise lacks them.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+4 books
Imagination and deceptive clothing
Phantasia is imagination, the power of presenting images.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Imitation
Mimētikē is imitative art; mimeisthai to imitate; mimēma an imitation.
Epinomis · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
Immaterial
Aylos means immaterial or without matter.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Immediate intellection and the return to particulars
Immediate apprehension is marked by statim and subito; discursus is the movement through intermediate considerations.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Immortality
Thnētos means mortal; athanatos immortal, literally not subject to death; anōlethros indestructible.
Epinomis · Stobaeus, Volume I+4 books
Immortalizing
Apathanatizein is a causative infinitive, “to make immortal.”
Charmides
Immovable
Akinētos denies motion or being moved.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Impact
Prosptōsis is a falling or striking against something, hence impact.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Impassible
Apathēs denies undergoing an affection or alteration in the relevant respect.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Impenetrability
Impenetrability is a property associated here with material bodies.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Imperceptible smallness
Mikrotēs is smallness.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Imperishable
Aphthartos describes what does not undergo destruction or corruption.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Impertinence
Impertinence means irrelevance: something that does not pertain to the matter or end in question.
Centuries of Meditations
Impiety
Asebeia is impiety or failure of due reverence, especially in relations with gods and other objects of sacred obligation.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Implicit faith and assurance
Implicit faith here is trust whose grounds and contents are not yet fully understood.
Centuries of Meditations
Impregnation
Impregnation is the Artist's determination of catholic first matter toward the properties of silver or gold in the first composition of the two.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Impression and effacement
Imprimere is to impress or stamp; delere to erase or efface.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Impression and stamp
Typos can name a mark, stamp, or pattern; typōsis emphasizes an impress or formation.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Impression-receiving medium
Ekmageion names a medium in which an impression is received.
Stobaeus, 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
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
103 entries · 3,864 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 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