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 R
1–36 of 137
Racehorse
Kelēs means racehorse; a single riding-horse, opposed here to a chariot team.
Lysis
Racers, wrestlers, and event-specific excellence
Dromeus is a runner or racer; palaistēs is a wrestler.
The Lovers
Radiance
Augē is radiance or a gleam, the brightness by which something shines or appears illuminated.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Radical moisture
Radical moisture is the innate or rooted moisture believed to sustain the body's natural heat.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Rain and precipitation
Hyetos denotes rain or rainfall.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Rainbow and covenant
The rainbow's covenant-sign appears in a position Khunrath reports and rejects at pp. 72–73.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Rainbow and halo
Iris names the rainbow and can also name its divine personification.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rapine
Rapine is violent plunder, forcible seizure, or predatory taking.
Centuries of Meditations
Rascal
Miare is the masculine vocative of miaros, a word capable of strong abuse connected with foulness or pollution.
Charmides
Ratio and proportion
Logos can mean ratio in a numerical setting; analogia denotes proportion or correspondence of ratios.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Rational and irrational
Logikos characterizes what possesses or belongs to reason; alogos marks its absence.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rational animals
Alogos means without logos, hence irrational or lacking reason in this setting; kyriōs qualifies the claim as “strictly” or “in the proper sense.”
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Ray
Aktis is a ray or beam of light.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Rays and radiance
Rayon and rayonnement picture directed or spreading light.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Reading
Lire is an act of mind, not merely the eyes’ movement over written signs.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook
Reading and writing
Graphein is to write; anagignōskein in these examples is to read.
Charmides · Lysis
Reading the text and apparatus
This is a reading article rather than an entry for a single Greek lemma.
Epinomis
Reality
Reality does not always coincide with truth or simply mean solid matter.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Rearrangement into other bodies
Metakosmēsis is rearrangement or reordering.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Reason
Raison may name a governing intellectual faculty, a sound ground for action, or a particular reason advanced in argument.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Reason and account
Logos can be speech, statement, account, argument or an articulated explanation.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+7 books
Reason anger and desire
Ratio, ira, and concupiscentia name reason, anger, and desire in a three-power scheme.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Reasoning
Raisonnement is a process or sequence of argument, not an automatic synonym for sound reason.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Reasoning and calculation
Logismos is the activity of reasoning or calculating.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rebirth
Palingenesia denotes renewed birth or coming-to-be.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rebound and vibration
Apopalmos is a rebound or springing back; palmos is a shaking or vibration.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Receiving and giving
The verbs name taking, receiving, or accepting something; dare names giving.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Receiving forms without losing one’s own
Induere and exuere literally suggest putting on and taking off clothing.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Receiving images: wax, seals and mirrors
The verbs mean receiving or taking in; capere can also mean containing or grasping.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Receptacle
Hypodochē names reception or what receives.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Reciprocal love
Antiphileō means love in return; in the passive, be loved in return.
Lysis
Recognition
Recognition is knowing the matter for what it is and for what it can become.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Recognition and discrimination
Diairein means divide or distinguish, diakrinein separate or discriminate, and diagignōskein distinguish by recognition or judgment.
Charmides · The Lovers
Recognition and misrecognition
Recognition is represented chiefly by the same language as knowing and failing to know.
Alcibiades II
Recognition by sight
Sight Recognition is the art of inferring a figure's configuration from changes of brightness along its visible line.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Recollection
Anamnēsis denotes recollection.
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