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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Rising
Anatolē is rising, especially that of a heavenly body, and can also designate the eastern direction associated with sunrise.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rising of a star
Epitolē is a rising or appearance above the horizon, used here of stars.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rivalry, argumentative standing, and shame
Apechtheia denotes enmity or hostility.
Theages
River
Potamos is a river, whether in descriptions of the inhabited world or in narratives of the underworld.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
River diversion
The vocabulary joins rivers, expenditure from one’s own resources, mixing, and making sweet.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Rivets of affection
B87 describes Aphrodite as having worked something with rivets of affection.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Roads and Steiria
Ὁδός means road or way.
Hipparchus
Rock and gates
Magnesia becomes the firm first-material ground and, as it were, rock of Nature on p. 176.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Romance satire and the refusal of a complete code
Romance announces an imaginative narrative involving marvels rather than a modern romantic love story.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Room
Room means space available for something, not only a chamber in a house.
Centuries of Meditations
Root
Rhiza is a root, with rhizōma a related formation.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Rosarium
The Rosarium Philosophorum is an unnamed author's book repeatedly cited as an authoritative witness.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Rough
Trachys is rough; its comparative and related verbs describe greater roughness or an action that roughens.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rough and smooth
Trachy is rough; leion is smooth.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Rousseau
The writer and composer identified by the supplied translator note behind the initials J. J. and the song Guérin sings beside the lilac.
The Green Notebook
Rousseau, Werther, and the argument about reading
Rousseau and Werther enter the supplied material as names in a polemic about solitary reverie, literary influence, and self-destructive conduct.
René
Royal comparison
The royal comparison is an editorial name for Socrates’ extended account of Alcibiades’ real rivals.
Alcibiades I
Ruddle
Ruddle is the supplied English rendering of Rötelstein in the proposed-material catalogue.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Ruin
Atē can express ruinous error, delusion, or disaster.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Ruin of first principles
Principia are beginnings or first principles.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Ruins and monuments
Ruines and débris designate what remains after destruction.
René
Rule and kingship
Basileia is kingship or royal rule.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Ruler
Archōn is one who rules.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rules
Règle can be a principle answering an art’s needs or a convention that has lost its purpose.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Ruling and supervision
Archein means ruling or being in charge; its middle-passive forms can describe being ruled.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+4 books
Ruling part
The neuter substantive names what directs or rules.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Ruling the body
Ἄρχειν means to rule or govern; the corresponding passive is to be ruled.
Alcibiades I
Runner-up: just under the top
Hypakros means just under the top.
The Lovers
Rust
Ἰόν is the inflected mineral term translated “rust” in this passage.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
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