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
145–180 of 264
Possibility
Dynaton and adynaton mean possible/capable and impossible/incapable.
Charmides · Lysis+2 books
Possibility of Nature
Nature's possibility is what Nature can do under the principles Khunrath attributes to her.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Potency, possibility and the lion
Potentia is a capacity, whose object and bearer must be identified.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Potidaea and the campaign
Poteidaia is the place-name Potidaea.
Charmides
Poverty
Penia is poverty or lack.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Poverty and wealth
Pauvreté and richesse appear as lived conditions, objects of imagination and disputed aims of collective life.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Power and capacity
Dynamis is power, capacity or efficacy; dynasthai means be able.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+6 books
Power and operation
Puissance concerns a power or capacity; opération concerns its exercise or what is done.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Power to act
Ἐξουσία is the permission, authority, or effective freedom to act as one chooses.
Alcibiades I · Stobaeus, Volume I
Practical expertise horses javelins and cities
Hippikos concerns horses or horsemanship; hippeus is a horseman.
Theages
Practice and effort
Pratique names actual application or conduct; exercice concerns the use that develops a power; effort marks exertion.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Practice and exercise
Meletē is practice or sustained preparation.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Praise
Praise acknowledges and celebrates excellence.
Centuries of Meditations
Praise and blame
Epainein means praising or approving, and epainos is praise.
Charmides · Minos+2 books
Prattling and talking nonsense
Adoleschein means to prattle, to engage in talk dismissed as idle or excessively minute.
The Lovers · Lysis
Prayer
The verb euchesthai can mean to pray, vow or wish; euchē names a prayer or vow.
Alcibiades II · Epinomis+5 books
Prayer and grace
Prayer in this treatise asks for recognition, right preparation, perseverance and the fitting use of the result.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Prayer, sacrifice, and soothing the divine
Paramytheisthai can mean to encourage, console or soothe through address; the context determines the object and force.
Theages
Praying in ignorance
This thematic heading gathers the conjunction of ignorance, failure to notice and the mistaken judgement that harmful objects are good.
Alcibiades II
Precedence and causal regress
Praecedere and antecedere go before; prior and posterior mark an ordering whose basis must be specified.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Precedent
Precedent means an example or pattern available for imitation.
Centuries of Meditations
Preceptor
The preceptor is a person who knows and communicates the Art under an obligation of gratitude and fidelity.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Precious and lowly
Vilis can mean cheap or lowly, pretiosus valuable or precious, and nobilis distinguished or excellent.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Precipitation
Precipitation is one of the acknowledged ways in which the laborant transforms or recovers prepared metallic material.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Precision
Akribois is the second-person singular present of akriboō, to ascertain or know accurately.
Charmides · The Lovers+1 book
Preface, criticism, and the evidence of revision
The Preface is an authorial intervention that explains publication, answers criticism, and instructs readers how to interpret Atala and René.
René
Prejudice
Préjugé can name a received bias, but Joubert also uses it favorably for what precedes and guides judgment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Preliminary hearing
Anakrisis is an examination or questioning, with the legal sense of a preliminary hearing before a case proceeds.
Charmides
Preliminary studies and the labor of preparation
Mathēma is something learned, a lesson or subject of learning.
Epinomis
Prelude to Apollo
Prooimion is a prelude or opening composition; eis Apollōna identifies its divine addressee.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Preparation
Preparation is the second of the Art’s two secrets, following recognition of the matter.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Prepared and Unprepared
Prepared and unprepared describe the state of a matter relative to human work.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Preparing means
Paraskeuazō means prepare; provide; procure something for a purpose.
Lysis
Presence
Pareimi means be present; be there or at hand.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+3 books
Presence and possession
Pareinai describes being present; eneinai being in; echein having; metechein having a share in or partaking of.
Charmides
Presentation and imagination
Phantasia concerns what appears or is presented to a subject, and in some passages the activity of presenting images.
Stobaeus, Volume I
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