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
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Purity
Purity is freedom from corrupting mixture or defilement.
Centuries of Meditations
Purity and innocence
Purity can mean freedom from moral stain, clarity of an impression, integrity of feeling, or the fresh unspoiled condition of nature.
The Green Notebook
Purity and mixture
Purus and puritas describe absence of an alien admixture.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Purple of sea dye
Halourgēs and related halourgos describe a purple associated with sea dye.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pursuit and practice
Epitēdeuma is a pursuit, occupation, or practiced way of acting.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Putrefaction
Putrefaction is the corrupting or destructive passage through which a new generation becomes possible.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II+1 book
Pyramid
Pyramis names a pyramid.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pyrilampes
Pyrilampous is the genitive of Pyrilampes, identified as Charmides' maternal uncle.
Charmides
Pyrrhus and Cineas
Pyrrhus is the conquering king in the anecdote, and Cineas the philosophical counsellor who questions his purpose.
Centuries of Meditations
Pythagoreans
These forms name the Pythagoreans or characterize someone as Pythagorean.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Pythocleides
One of the wise men with whom Pericles is said to have associated; the dative is governed by the verb of keeping company.
Alcibiades I
Pythodorus and Isolochus
Pythodorus, identified by his father Isolochus, is one of the two pupils Socrates attributes to Zeno.
Alcibiades 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