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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 S
1–36 of 309
Sabbath
The Sabbath is sacred rest, and in the plural can designate appointed holy days.
Centuries of Meditations
Sacred
Hieros describes what is sacred or belongs to religious observance.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Sacred envoys
Theōroi are sacred envoys or festival delegates in this context.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Sacred image
Agalma can denote an image, especially one associated with a god.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Sacred mind
Phrēn hierē is a sacred mind.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Sacred rite
Hieropoiia is the performance or establishment of sacred acts.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Sacrifice
Thysia is sacrifice and thyein is to sacrifice or offer to the gods; the dialogue also contrasts maimed victims with the perfect hecatombs of the Trojan quotation.
Alcibiades II · Minos+5 books
Sacrifice and Eucharist
Sacrifice can mean giving up a valued good, a religious offering, or participation in suffering understood through Christ.
The Green Notebook
Sacrifice, Torture, and Punishment
Sacrifice can name a ritual offering, self-surrender, or a theological explanation of punitive violence.
Intimate Journals
Saint
A saint is a holy person belonging to God.
Centuries of Meditations
Saint-Malo and the Rance
The route of Guérin’s first encounter with the Ocean, recorded on April 15, 1833.
The Green Notebook
Sal Ammoniac
Sal ammoniac is named among the salts used in metallic preparation and, when rightly prepared, among the reviving salts.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Salamis and Aegina
The ancestral homelands associated respectively with Eurysaces and the earlier Aeacus.
Alcibiades I
Saline taste
Halukos means salty or saline.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Salt
Hals can denote salt; its forms must be read in context because related inflections also occur in the vocabulary of the sea.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum+1 book
Salt of the Metals
The salt-of-metals dictum is accepted only under a regenerative interpretation.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Salt of Wisdom
The Salt of Wisdom is named through its salt-fountlet on page 127.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Salt, Mercury and Sulphur
Salt, Mercury and Sulphur provide a chymical threefold analysis which stands beside body, spirit and soul.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Saltpetre and Nitre
Saltpetre appears as a proposed Magnesia; nitre appears among salts used in metallic preparation.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Salvation
Salvation names rescue from the powers that destroy life and the resulting condition of safety and blessedness.
Centuries of Meditations
Sameness and difference
Tauton is “the same”, a contraction of to auto.
Charmides · Hipparchus+3 books
Sand
A sand means a single grain of sand.
Centuries of Meditations
Sand and Sténio
The poet Sténio, identified by the supplied note as a character in George Sand’s Lélia, supplies a dark image for Guérin’s moral self-examination.
The Green Notebook
Sapphirine and Rubine Salt-stones
Sapphirine and rubine qualify the proposed regenerated salt-stones of silver and gold respectively.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Satanic beauty
Satan is not used in only one way across the Journals.
Intimate Journals
Saturn of the Wise
Saturn of the Wise is one of the names of Magnesia in the culminating description at p. 52.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Saul and Ananias
Saul's change from persecutor to preacher supplies the pattern for an opponent's hoped-for conversion on pp. 41–42.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Scales
Λεπίδες are scales, the last item in B82’s list of corresponding surface growths.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Scalichius
Scalichius is the final witness named in the p. 147 list.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Scarlet and crimson
Phoinikous designates a strong red shade, rendered scarlet in the rainbow account.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Scent-tracking
The fragment speaks of “fragments of the limbs of beasts” investigated with nostrils.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Scepters, courts, and guardians of written laws
A skēptron is a staff or scepter that marks authority.
Minos
School
School can mean a place of teaching or a learned tradition with recognized maxims.
Centuries of Meditations
School and choosing
Hairesis is choosing or a chosen position and can name a school or philosophical approach.
Stobaeus, Volume I
School-fox
The School-fox is the sophisticated academic opponent whose argument outruns first-hand knowledge.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Schooling and the letter-master
Grammatistēs is the elementary teacher of letters, represented here by genitive and accusative forms.
Charmides
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