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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
37–72 of 128
Impulse
Hormē denotes an impulse or directed movement toward action.
Stobaeus, Volume I
In-being and objective presence
In-being means a thing’s manner of being in something else.
Centuries of Meditations
Incantation
Epōidē is an incantation, a song or utterance sung over someone; the related verb is epāidein.
Charmides · Stobaeus, Volume I
Incarnation
Incarnation names the Son’s assumption of human life.
Centuries of Meditations
Incense and perfumes
The catalogue of offerings names perfumes, myrrh, and frankincense.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Inceration
Inceration is the one operation that Khunrath pauses to define in a particularly plain marginal sentence: Inceriren ist wachs flüssig machen, making wax-fluid.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Inclination and tendency
Rhopē is a tipping, inclination, or tendency.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Inclination and tilt
Enklisis is inclination or slanting.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Inconvenient
Inconvenient can mean unfitting, unsuitable, or inconsistent with the nature and purpose of something.
Centuries of Meditations
Incorporeal
Asōmaton means what is not a body.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Incubus
“Incubus” can name an oppressive experience in sleep, imagined as a weight riding or sitting upon the sleeper.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Indestructible
Anōlethros denies destruction.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Indeterminate and indefinite
The indeterminate is not securely fixed in form or meaning; the indefinite is not assigned a fixed limit.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Indifference
Indifférence can register a waning attachment, a pose of superiority or an inclination toward aversion; it is not identical with generous restraint.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Individually
Individually here means indivisibly or inseparably, rather than separately, one person at a time.
Centuries of Meditations
Indivisible
Adiaireton means not divisible.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Indulgence
Indulgence is active leniency or sympathetic allowance, capable of helping a person but also of failing justice.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Inert matter
The phrase means idle or inactive matter.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Inexpressible
Arrhētos means inexpressible or not spoken.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Infancy
Infancy denotes the earliest stage of life.
Centuries of Meditations
Infection, lameness and Lethe
Inficere can stain, imbue or infect; in these passages it describes form’s impairment in matter.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Inference and syllogism
Syllogismos is an inference in which statements support a conclusion.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Inferiority and poor performance
Phaulos can mark something as poor, inferior or of little account.
Charmides · Lysis
Infertility
Agonos means unproductive or infertile.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Infinite
Infini can express unboundedness or something exceeding appraisal.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+3 books
Infinite operations and the limits of sensory kinds
Infinity has several local senses: indefinite repetition, unlimited extension in thought, unrestricted kinds of objects and qualified participation in divine infinity.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Influence
Influence retains the older image of a power flowing from the heavens, especially from stars, into earthly life.
Centuries of Meditations · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Ingenuity
Ingénieux describes inventive or illuminating intelligence.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Ingratitude
Ingratitude is failure to recognize or answer a benefit.
Centuries of Meditations
Inhabited earth
Oikoumenē is the inhabited world, often the world known to the speaker and audience rather than the entire planet considered physically.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Inhalation
Eispnoē is inward breathing.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Initiation
Teletē is an initiation or sacred rite.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Injury and the uninjured judge
Laesio is an injury; loosening and contraction count as harmful when they corrupt the affected substance.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Injustice
Adikia is injustice or wrongdoing in relation to justice.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Innate and connatural
Symphytos describes what belongs naturally together or is native to a being.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Innate forms and the stimulus of images
Excitation by an image is a prompting, while promere is bringing forth what lies concealed.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
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