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 S
73–108 of 309
Sensation
Sensation names a felt event or transmission.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Sensation as attentive activity
Agere is acting; pati is undergoing an affection.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Sense
Nous is mind or intelligence and, in practical idioms, good sense.
Alcibiades II
Sense
Sense can name a bodily faculty or the vivid apprehension of a fact.
Centuries of Meditations · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Sense and judgment
Gnōmē can denote judgment, an opinion, or a considered intention.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Sense-specific discrimination
Krinein is to distinguish or judge; here the phrase concerns a sense's capacity to judge objects belonging to another sense.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Sensibility
Sensibilité concerns a capacity to be affected, but can emphasize fellow feeling, nervous responsiveness or an emanating inward quality.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · René+1 book
Sensible and sensibles
Sensible can mean aware or capable of feeling, and can also mean perceptible to the senses.
Centuries of Meditations · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Sensorium
Sensorium is a Latin term for a seat or organ of sensation, retained within Joubert’s discussion of Newton’s account of space.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Sensory error and corrective reason
Iudicium is judgement.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Sentence
Phrase, often printed phraze, is a unit of verbal expression whose shape and movement can be compared with thought or the body.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Separate forms and intellectual life
Segregatus and separatus describe forms removed from composites.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Separation
Chōrismos and related verbal forms describe separation.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+2 books
Separation and Composition
Separation divides or removes; composition and reunion bring together.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Service
Service is action or operation that benefits someone.
Centuries of Meditations
Servitude
Doulos means slave; one legally unfree.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+2 books
Setting
Dysis is setting, particularly the disappearance of a heavenly body below the horizon.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Seven weeks
“In seven weeks” is the phrase around which B153a is organized.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Severed animals and replacement souls
Frusta are severed pieces; compago is the organized structure joining a body.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Severity
Sévérité is evaluated through its effects, which can differ even within relations of care and correction.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Sexual differentiation
The fragments express sexual difference through men and women, male offspring, bodily members, and the division of the formation of limbs.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Sexual generation
Di’ allēlōn means through one another; the phrase contrasts generation by living beings with generation directly from material constituents.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Shadow
Skia is a shadow, a region deprived of direct light by an intervening body.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+2 books
Shadow and mirror
Umbra is a shadow; umbratilis means shadow-like.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Shadows and dependence
Umbra is a shadow.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Shakespeare epigraphs and the changing world
An epigraph places borrowed words at a threshold to direct expectation.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Shame
Aidōs names a restraining sense of shame, respect or regard for what is fitting before others.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+1 book
Shame, age, ignorance, and the unanswered ending
Aischynesthai is to be ashamed; aischros can mean ugly, disgraceful or shameful.
Minos
Shamelessness and daring
Anaischyntia is shamelessness, a lack of the shame or regard for disgrace that ordinarily restrains conduct.
Hipparchus
Shape
Schēma names shape or configuration.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Shared hearth and table
Homestioi denotes sharing a hearth; autotrapezoi sharing the same table.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Sharing conversation
Metadidōmi means give a share, share something with someone.
Lysis
Shells
B76 speaks of heavy-backed shells belonging to sea-dwellers.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Ships
The ship is both a constructed object and a being imagined through its movement.
Intimate Journals
Shoemaking
Σκυτοτόμος names the shoemaker or leather-cutter; σκυτική the leather-working or shoemaking craft in the present examples.
Alcibiades I
Shooting star
Diattōn is a participle meaning darting or shooting across.
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