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 Q
1–17 of 17
Quail-lover
Philortyx means fond of quails; a quail-lover.
Lysis
Quail-tapping
The epithet printed for Meidias means quail-tapper or quail-striker, a person associated with striking the bird in a game.
Alcibiades I
Qualification and attribution
These phrases limit a predication, introduce approximate wording, express a tentative judgment, or attribute a claim.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Quality
Poiotēs names quality.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II+1 book
Quantity
Poson designates quantity or how much something is.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II+1 book
Quantity and quality
Ξηρός means dry and ὑγρός wet; in the examples they distinguish food and drink.
Hipparchus · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Quarrel
Dēris means strife or contention, and Eris belongs to the same field of quarrelling.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Quarreling, contention, and love of victory
Eris means strife or quarrel, and erizein is to quarrel or dispute.
The Lovers · Lysis
Quarry
Agra means quarry, game; what is being hunted.
Lysis
Question and answer
Erōtan is ask or question; apokrinesthai is answer, and apokrisis an answer.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+2 books
Quick and quicken
Quick can mean alive, keenly sensitive, or responsive; to quicken is to give life, revive, or stir into active exercise.
Centuries of Meditations
Quicklime
Quicklime is named in Latin as Calx viua among the claimants’ candidate substances.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Quickness
Oxys means sharp or quick, and oxytēs sharpness or speed.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Quickness and slowness
The tach- family denotes speed or quickness; bradeōs and bradytēs denote slow performance and slowness.
Charmides
Quietism
Quiétisme is a named religious question treated through its moral consequences and its relation to an inward state.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Quietness
The adverbial dative hēsychēi means quietly or calmly; hēsychiotēs is a noun for the corresponding quality, quietness.
Charmides
Quintessence
Quintessence is the purest or most concentrated essence.
Centuries of Meditations
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