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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 K
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Keeping the teaching
Stegasai means to shelter or keep covered.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Kidney
Nephros is a kidney.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Kin-murder
“Kin-murder” is an interpretive heading, not a compound noun quoted from the fragments.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Kind, generation, and operation’s dependence on substance
An agent's form supplies its principle of action, and its operation is said to follow its being.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Kindliness
Philophrosynē is friendly feeling or kindliness.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Kindling
Exapsis is a kindling or ignition, the beginning of a fire or blaze.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Kindness
Kindness is a benevolent disposition expressed in benefits.
Centuries of Meditations
Kinds and species
Eidos is form, appearance, or an identifiable kind; genos a kind, stock, or class.
Epinomis · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+3 books
King
Basileus is a king; basilikē is the feminine adjective “kingly,” used with craft expressed or understood.
The Lovers · Stobaeus, Volume I
King and kingdom
King and kingdom name sovereignty and its realm.
Centuries of Meditations
King of Lineland
The King is the ruler of the one-dimensional world encountered in the Square's first dream.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Kings and statesmen
Basileus is a king; basilikos means kingly or belonging to a king.
Minos
Kingship refused
Basileia means kingship, while the verb denotes declining or refusing.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Kinship and affinity
Syngeneia means family relationship, relationship by descent.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Kinship and alienness
Syngenēs means kindred, oikeios one's own or congenial, and anoikeios alien or uncongenial.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Kinship and connections
Friends and kinsmen are social connections on whom Alcibiades expects to rely; syngenēs specifically indicates shared kinship, whereas philos need not.
Alcibiades I
Kinship and separation
Cognatio is kinship or affinity; capax means capable of receiving or grasping.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Knowable
Epistētos describes what is an object of knowledge.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Knowing and thinking one knows
The dialogue distinguishes knowing, thinking that one knows, seeming to know and really knowing.
Alcibiades II
Knowing badly
The phrase “to know badly” combines knowing with the adverb kakōs.
Alcibiades II
Knowing that and knowing what
The distinction turns on the difference between a content clause, hoti oiden, “that he knows”, and a relative construction, ho oiden or ha oiden, “what he knows” or “the things he knows”.
Charmides
Knowing what to do and say
Eidenai is to know; the phrase “what one must do and say” supplies the content of the practical knowledge sought.
Alcibiades II
Knowledge
Epistēmē can mean knowledge, a determinate body of knowledge, or competent expertise.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+11 books
Knowledge and teachability
This heading names the evidential connection developed at 118c–d rather than a single Greek technical term.
Alcibiades I · Theages
Knowledge of knowledge
The genitive epistēmēs identifies the object: knowledge whose object is knowledge.
Charmides
Knowledge of one’s own and others
The issue is knowing something as belonging to a person, expressed at 133d by knowing Alcibiades' things “that they are Alcibiades'.”
Alcibiades I
Knowledge of the best
Epistēmē is knowledge; its genitive object here is what is best.
Alcibiades II
Knowledgeable living
Epistēmonōs is the adverb of being knowledgeable: knowingly, knowledgeably or with expertise.
Charmides
Knucklebones
To play knucklebones is the concrete childhood activity in Socrates’ recollection; paidia and paizein name the broader category of play.
Alcibiades I · Lysis
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