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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
7,826 entries across 28 collectionsTerms beginning with M
181–216 of 322
Mind or inward understanding
Athena delights her own mind, and Mnemosyne awakens mind in all (XXXII.5; LXXVII.8).
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Mind-harming
In the printed Mnemosyne line, βλαψίφρονος qualifies deceit, ἀπάτης, from which memory is kept apart (LXXVII.3).
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Mind’s transformation of material conditions
Ficino's series contrasts things under material conditions with their intellectual apprehension: composite/simple, impure/pure, many/one, changing/stable, distant/united, dead/living and corruptible/perpetual.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Mine and mineral working
Metallon means a mine or mineral working in the selected passage.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Mine of the Art
The Mine of the Art is Magnesia as the natural source in which the Artist is to work.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Mineral and ore
Ore, mineral source, mine and subterranean vein are related retrieval terms, not a single modern geological category.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Mineral kingdom
Minerals are the more fixed, earthy, and strongly digested terrestrial bodies.
The Golden Chain of Homer
Mineral powders
The edition renders the four mineral names as rust, copper-flower, cadmia and misy; χνοώδη describes a fine, powdery condition.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Mines and mineral vapours
Mine vapours and related names describe stages or forms of mineral matter within conjectures about underground generation.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Minister
To minister is to serve or supply what is needed.
Centuries of Meditations
Minos and the disputed good lawgiver
Minos is a personal name, not an abstract term for law.
Minos
Miracle
Miracle names the marvelous event as an object of belief.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Mirror
Κάτοπτρον and ἔνοπτρον both mean mirror or reflective medium in this passage.
Alcibiades I · Stobaeus, Volume I+4 books
Mirror
The mirror is an explanatory image for what the art allows the main author to contemplate.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Mirror and self-knowledge
Two mirrors appear in the book's account of knowledge.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Mirror, light, and the soul of the sun
A real flame and its reflected image are distinguished.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Mirth
Mirth means cheerfulness or enjoyable social activity, often with lively company, talk and jokes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Mise
Mise is called holy, well-hallowed, and an unspeakable queen at XLII.3, in a hymn that also names Dionysos and Iakchos.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Misery
Misery is wretchedness or an unfulfilled condition.
Centuries of Meditations · René
Missile
Both occurrences describe Zeus’s thunderbolt as a sudden, invincible or sharp heavenly missile.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Mission
Mission is a task or calling whose significance exceeds private inclination.
The Green Notebook
Mist
Homichlē is mist.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Mist
Protogonos disperses dark ὁμίχλη from the eyes at VI.6.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Mist and seeing
Achlys is mist, first located in the Homeric eyes of Diomedes and then transferred to Alcibiades’ soul.
Alcibiades II
Mistake
A mistake is an erroneous apprehension or application.
Centuries of Meditations
Mistress
A “mistress” or “Mistris” is often the woman someone loves or courts.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Mistress, lady
Leto and Leukothea are respectfully addressed as goddess and lady (XXXV.6; LXXIV.8).
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Misty
Adonis dwells beneath misty Tartarus at LVI.10, and the Erinyes have a murky cave beside the Styx at LXIX.4.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Misunderstanding and Incommunicability
Malentendu is not only a failure interrupting communication; in LXXVII and XCIX it becomes the condition that makes apparent agreement possible.
Intimate Journals
Misy
Μίσυ is the ancient mineral or medicinal-material name retained in the translation as misy.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Mix
Hera is mingled with air, Apollo blends the celestial whole and its allotment in harmony, and Aither and Sleep are asked to come tempered or in a well-mixed condition.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Mixture and blending
The two nouns concern combination, but some accounts distinguish their processes or results more narrowly than ordinary English does.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+2 books
Mnemosyne
Μνημοσύνη is the named goddess invoked in the Prayer and in her own hymn, and identified as mother of the Muses.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Mock sun
Parēlios is a mock sun, a luminous appearance resembling the sun beside it.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Model
Modèle is something taken as a pattern or standard, whether an idea, an artwork, a person, or an example in education.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Moderation
Mēden agan is the maxim “Nothing too much,” with the adverb agan expressing excess.
Charmides · The Lovers+1 book
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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry Lexicon
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry · R. Swinburne Clymer
131 entries · 495 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Candida Phoenix Philosophica Lexicon
Candida Phoenix Philosophica · Anonymous
155 entries · 478 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
377 entries · 6,929 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Kybalion Lexicon
The Kybalion · Three Initiates
92 entries · 347 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I Lexicon
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I · Attributed to Abraham the Jew
138 entries · 541 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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Golden Chain of Homer Lexicon
The Golden Chain of Homer · Anonymous (traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger)
125 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Orphic Hymns Lexicon
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns · Attributed to Orpheus
1,958 entries · 276 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Sophic Hydrolith Lexicon
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise · Anonymous and companion authors
656 entries · 430 subsidiary terms