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
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Recompense
Amoibē is a return, exchange, or recompense.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Recreation
Recreation is an activity that refreshes or delights.
Centuries of Meditations
Red
Erythros is red.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Red diadem
The most ruddy diadem adorns the completed Catholic Stone in the description of the physical Denarius.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Red-gold Ore
Red-gold ore belongs to the page 76 group associated with subtle volatile products.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Redemption
Redemption carries the language of release at a cost.
Centuries of Meditations
Reducing self-importance
Systellō means draw together, reduce, take down; here restrain inflated self-estimation.
Lysis
Redundancy and uselessness
Frustra means in vain, fruitlessly, or to no purpose.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Referring onward
Epanapherō means carry back or refer onward to something else.
Lysis
Reflected light
Antaugeia is an answering or reflected brightness.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Reflection
Réflexion is attentive reconsideration or intellectual examination.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Reflection
Anaklasis names a turning or bending back.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Reflection
Reflection can name thought turned back upon an experience, or light returned from a surface.
Centuries of Meditations
Reflexive understanding and willing
Reflexio is a return of activity upon itself; animadversio is noticing or attentive awareness.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Regeneration
Regeneration is a new or repeated birth through which the matter is raised beyond its former constituted state.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Regimen
Diaita is a manner of living or regimen, including activities and habits as well as food and drink.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Intimate Journals
Regularity
In geometry a regular polygon has equal sides and equal angles.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Rejected Materials
The rejected materials are substances proposed as the catholic subject, or employed in preparations mistakenly claimed to yield it.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Relation
Pros ti literally means in relation to something.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Relations and respects
Respectus names a relation or respect of consideration.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Release
Apallagē is release or departure; the related verb describes becoming free of or separating from something.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Religion
Religion can name a particular tradition, a relation to heaven, and an institution shaping feelings and conduct.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Religion and superstition
“Religion” can name worship, a professed faith or community, the institutions administering it, pious conduct, or the religious standard by which conduct is judged.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Religious belief
Croyance can name a shared belief or an article held true.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Religious melancholy
“Religious Melancholy” names Burton’s disputed subdivision of melancholy continually concerned with religion and divine objects.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Remedies and extraordinary powers
Pharmaka in B 111 are remedies or potent agents against ills.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Remembrance
Souvenir can be a remembered thing or the act of recalling it.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Remorse
Remords is conscience’s response to wrongdoing, but its relation to innocence, happiness and moral change varies across the notes.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Rennet, magnet and clock
Coagulum is rennet or a curdling agent; its effect is coagulation of milk.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Repentance
Repentir names a response after wrongdoing that can purify or signal change.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Repetition and the double tale
The phrase dipl’ ereō means “A double tale I shall tell.”
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Repletion
Plērōsis means filling; the process of making full.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
Repose, motion, and contemplation
Status is standing, settled state or repose; alteratio is the change by which a bodily form is introduced into matter.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Representation
Representation gives an object or inward content a determinate presentation.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Reproach and the ending
Ὀνειδίζειν means to reproach, taunt or cast something against someone as a fault.
Hipparchus
Reputation and ambition
Philotimōs describes eagerness for honour or distinction; eudokimōn describes enjoying a good reputation or esteem.
Charmides · The Lovers+2 books
Books in the Lexicon
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades I Lexicon
Alcibiades I · Plato
176 entries · 701 subsidiary terms
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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