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 P
1–36 of 264
Pain
Lypē commonly names pain or distress; algēdōn emphasizes pain or a pang; ponos can mean toil or exertion as well as suffering.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Pain, location and reporting
Dolor and cruciatus concern pain or torment; molestia can name the distress occasioned by it.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Painted offerings
Agalma, represented here by the plural agalmasin, can name an object of honour or delight; the edition renders it “images.”
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Painters and colours
Graphees are painters.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Painters flute players and the problem of an alternative
Zōgraphos means a painter; aulētēs a player of the aulos, conventionally “flute-player” in this edition; kitharistēs a cithara-player.
Theages
Painting
Peinture is a visual art and a recurrent model for literary or intellectual presentation.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Palaestra
Palaistra is a wrestling-school or exercise ground.
Charmides · Lysis
Pale yellow
Ōchros denotes a pale or yellowish color.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pampering
Diathryptō means pamper, spoil through indulgence.
Lysis
Panathenaea
Παναθήναια is the Panathenaea, the Athenian festival associated with Athena.
Hipparchus
Panthea
Panthea is the personal name supplied by Hermippus.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Papyri and the unprinted text
Papyrus witnesses are ancient copies on the writing material papyrus.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Paracelsus
Paracelsus is explicitly named in the page 109 margin as a friend whose authority remains below Nature's truth.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Paradise
Paradise names the original blessed habitation and, by extension, a present manner of inhabiting the world in knowledge, charity, and enjoyment.
Centuries of Meditations
Parental likeness
Homoiotēs is likeness, anomoiotēs unlikeness, and epikrateia predominance.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Parents
Parents are those who beget and raise children.
Centuries of Meditations
Parents and the elder brother
Kinship terms establish unequal positions as well as affection.
René
Paris
The city in which Guérin confronts crowds, professional necessity, and social exposure.
The Green Notebook
Parmenides
The genitive names Parmenides as a proposed teacher or model.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Parmenides and the summary formula
Ficino calls Parmenides Pythagorean and gives a work-title, De veritate et opinione, “On Truth and Opinion.”
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Part and whole
Meros is a part; holon is a whole.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Participation
Methexis means participation; metechein means to share in or partake of something.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I+1 book
Particular
Kath’ hekaston means with respect to each item or, substantivally, the particular.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Particulars and Augmentations
Particularia are genuine limited works dependent upon the same ground as the universal Stone; Augmenta names the silver or gold increases associated with certain such works.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Partless
Amerēs denies the possession of parts.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Passion
Passion covers powerful affections and impulses, including those represented in tragedy.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Passive and capable of affection
Pathētos and pathētikos concern undergoing an effect rather than producing it.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Past, present, and future
These temporal positions have different imaginative forms and different uses in action.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Pastoral happiness and imagined simplicity
Pastoral represents life through shepherds, flocks and rural surroundings.
René
Pathos
Pathos concerns emotional effect.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Paths and channels of speech
Atrapos is a path; the source prints its inflected form atrapon.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Paths and prescribed ends
Via and trames are a way or path; finis and terminus can be an end, goal, or boundary.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Patience
Patience covers waiting, sustained study and bearing with others.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Pattern and model
Paradeigma is that with reference to which something is formed, recognized, or compared.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pausanias and Anchites
Pausaniē is the vocative form of Pausanias: the name as spoken to its bearer.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Peace
Eirēnē is peace, opposed here to a savage way of life marked by violence.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+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
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