Words · Meanings · Passages
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 J
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Jacob’s ladder
The ladder is the passage between earth and heaven seen in Jacob’s dream at Bethel.
Centuries of Meditations
Jealousy
“Jealousie” names suspicion that the person one loves may love another, an eager wish to possess the beloved exclusively, or fear that someone else will share that love.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Jehovah
The name IEHOVAH governs the book's beginning, the guidance of inquiry and the blessing of entry into the Art.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
John and Amelius
Ioannis apostoli identifies John the apostle; Amelius is called a Platonist.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Joint
B32 states that a joint binds two.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Joking mockery and serious clarification
Skōptein is to mock or tease; paizein is to play or joke.
Theages
Journeys
Journeys include actual changes of place, imagined literary excursions, and figures for a life whose direction remains obscure.
The Green Notebook · René
Joy
Joie, with historical variants joye and joië elsewhere in the corpus, names glad feeling but does not invariably certify moral goodness.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Joy and happiness
Joie often marks a movement or sudden animation; bonheur can name the condition, occasion, or possession of happiness.
The Green Notebook
Jubilee
Jubilee evokes festive release and rejoicing.
Centuries of Meditations
Judge
Dikastēs is a judge, someone who examines and decides a case.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Judgment
Krisis is a judgment or act of deciding between claims or cases.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+2 books
Justice
Dikaios and its neuter dikaion concern what is just, right or fitting; the adverb dikaiōs means justly or rightly.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+8 books
Juxtaposition
The expressions mean lying alongside and touching.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, 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