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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 P
73–108 of 264
Philosophical Sowing
The historical verb seihen in these passages means to sow.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Philosophy
Philosophia is philosophy, the pursuit or cultivation of wisdom; philosophos characterizes someone disposed toward it.
Charmides · The Lovers+7 books
Philters
A philter is a love potion: a preparation intended or believed to arouse, compel or redirect affection.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Phlegm
Phlegm is the cold, moist humour of Burton's anatomical scheme.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Phocion
Phocion was an Athenian general and statesman, dated approximately 402–318 BC in the supplied edition, and remembered for honest poverty.
Centuries of Meditations
Phoenix
The phoenix is the fabulous bird associated with singular rarity and renewal through death.
Centuries of Meditations
Phosphorus
Phosphore is the material image for a light that seems transferable from the poet or his finger to writing.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Phrenitis
Phrenitis is the historical disorder defined here by continual mental disturbance with an acute fever.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Physical trainer
Paidotribēs means physical trainer of boys.
Lysis
Physical-artificial Wonder-working Being
The Ens Physico-artificiale MIRIFICVM is the Stone as a physical and artfully prepared wonder-working being.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Physician and seer
Iētros or iatros is physician; mantis is seer or diviner.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Physician, pilot and storm
Iatros is a doctor and kybernētēs a ship’s pilot or steersman.
Alcibiades II
Physics
Physics is inquiry into material nature, with a historical breadth that need not match a modern academic department.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Physiognomy
Physionomie concerns the face as expressive appearance.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook
Pico della Mirandola
Picus Mirandula is Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Renaissance writer whose oration on human dignity Traherne renders and then comments upon.
Centuries of Meditations · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Picture
A picture is a made representation.
Centuries of Meditations
Piety
Hosios is holy or religiously right, said at 149e of the person whose soul the gods consider.
Alcibiades II · Epinomis+5 books
Pilot and navigation
Kybernētēs is the pilot or steersman; kybernētikē the corresponding expertise of navigating or steering.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+3 books
Piloting and charioteering
Kybernan means to steer or pilot.
Theages
Pisistratus and Philaidae
Πεισίστρατος is Pisistratus, the Athenian ruler and father of Hipparchus and Hippias.
Hipparchus
Pits in the sky
Bothunos is a pit or hollow.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pity and compassion
Pitié and compassion join responsiveness to suffering with restraint in action.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Place
Place can be spatial location, the position of a part within a whole, or the inward presence an object has in an understanding.
Centuries of Meditations
Place and space
These spatial terms acquire different definitions in different reports.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Place, coincidence and painless penetration
Coincidence here is exact occupation of one place by two bodies.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Plague and foul air
Loimos denotes plague or epidemic affliction without identifying a modern pathogen.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Plane
Epipedon designates a plane or something planar.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Planet
Planētēs belongs to the language of wandering.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Planets
Πλανῆται are wanderers, here the planets contrasted with fixed stars.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Plant
Phyton names a plant or growing thing.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Plant juices
Chymoi can denote juices or flavours; this passage concerns their differences.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Plant sensation
Anaisthētōs means without sensation or imperceptibly, with the edition choosing the former in context.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Plant sex
The Greek says that plants contain the logos of male and female; the edition translates logos as “principle.”
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Plastic forms
Plastic here concerns shaping or molding.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Platforms
Platforms are plans, patterns, or models on which a thing can be formed.
Centuries of Meditations
Plato
Plato is a named philosophical authority in the Centuries.
Centuries of Meditations · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
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