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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
109–128 of 128
Interval
Diastēma is an extent or interval.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Intolerance
Intolérance is a danger arising within religious feeling or contempt for other religions, requiring reflection rather than simple intensity of conviction.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Intoxication
Ivresse extends from wine to nerves, mind and collective religious or political feeling, but these comparisons do not erase their differences.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Intimate Journals
Intrinsic and incidental cause
Kath' hauto means in itself or intrinsically; kata symbebēkos means incidentally or by concomitance.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Intromission
Intromission here means entry or introduction into another body, the physical sense documented in the translation note.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Intuition
Intuition names a kind of apprehension contrasted with ordinary sight or with judgment reached through reasoning.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Invention
Invention concerns bringing something into use or devising it; it does not invariably exclude imitation.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Invisible
Aoratos denies visibility.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Inward recollection
Recueillement means gathering or collecting oneself inwardly in these contexts.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook
Iris
Iris is the name printed in B 50.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Iron
Sidēros is iron.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Irony
Irony is named as a fundamental literary quality, but its work is not confined to saying the opposite of what one means.
Intimate Journals
Irony and the two answers
Eirōnikōs means ironically, in a manner that says less than or something other than what is meant.
The Lovers
Irregularity
An Irregular is a person whose figure departs from the standard prescribed for the class.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Irregularity
Irrégularité is explained through an appositional chain: the unexpected, surprise, astonishment.
Intimate Journals
Island
Nēsos is an island, land surrounded by water.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Isolated limbs
The phrase μουνομελῆ τὰ γυῖα describes limbs or bodily parts that are still “single-membered”: they have not yet become members of a larger articulated creature.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Isosceles
Isosceles names a triangle with two equal sides; in the fiction it designates the soldiers and labouring population whose third side is shorter.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Isosceles rebels
Isosceles names triangles with two equal sides, but in the political chapters it gathers several unequal social positions.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Isthmus
Isthmos is a narrow tract of land between bodies of water.
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