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
145–180 of 309
Smallest
Elachiston means smallest in the relevant comparison.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Smallest fragments
Θραύσματα are fragments or broken pieces; ἐλάχιστα means smallest or least.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Smearing and coating
Aleiphō means smear; coat a surface with something.
Lysis
Smell
Osmē means an odor or smell; the verb osphrainesthai means to smell.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook+2 books
Smoke
Kapnos is smoke.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Smooth
Leios describes a smooth surface.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Snow
Chiōn is snow.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Social familiarity
Synēthēs means familiar with, on accustomed terms with.
Lysis
Society
Société names the field of human relations, inherited customs and differentiated capacities.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Socinians
Socinians were adherents of the anti-Trinitarian theological tradition associated with Fausto Sozzini.
Centuries of Meditations
Socrates
Sōkratēs is the name of the principal speaker and first-person narrator.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+8 books
Soft
Malakos describes softness, opposed here to hardness.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Solid
Stereon can name a solid geometrical or bodily magnitude.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Solid humanity and superior races
Solid has a geometrical sense, possessing three dimensions, and ordinary associations of substantiality, firmness and respectability.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Solid parts
Στερεά are solids; ναστά are packed or compact parts; πυκνά means dense or close-packed.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Solitude
Solitude names privacy or separation from others; its value changes with the activity and stage of life involved.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Solon
Solōnos is the genitive of Solon, named as a distinguished family connection and as a poet who celebrated Charmides' ancestral house.
Charmides · The Lovers
Solstice and turning
Tropē is a turning.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Solve, Coagula, Fige
The three-command formula means dissolve, coagulate, fix.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Son of doctrine and master
The son of doctrine is a teachable participant in the Art, not simply a novice defined by lack.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Son of the World
The Son of the World is Magnesia considered as begotten from the greater world's seed and substance.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Song
Ōidē means song; a sung composition.
Lysis
Sophist
Sophistēs means sophist; a skilled or knowledgeable teacher.
Lysis
Sophist, virtue, and the content of good education
Sophistēs can name a master of wisdom or skill and, in the classical educational setting described by the supplied edition, a teacher of the sort commonly called a sophist.
Minos
Sophistry
Sophistry produces the appearance of philosophy, knowledge or beauty.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Sophists Prodicus Gorgias and Polus
Sophistēs names a person associated with wisdom or expert instruction; its force must be established in context rather than fixed in advance as “fraud”.
Theages
Sophroniscus and Phaenarete
The parents by whom Socrates identifies himself when declaring that he alone has genuinely loved Alcibiades.
Alcibiades I
Sorrow
Chagrin and tristesse can both become sorrow in these witnesses.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Soul
Psychē names the soul, the dimension of a person in which character and mental activities are located.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+12 books
Soul as cause bodily passivity and self movement
Aitios means responsible or causal; anaitios not responsible or without causation.
Epinomis
Soul as craftsman and body as what is molded
Plattein is to mold or shape; its passive plattesthai is to be molded.
Epinomis
Soul as the body’s craftsman
An artifex is a skilled maker; a pedissequa is an attendant or handmaid.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Soul body and what is older
Psychē is soul and sōma body.
Epinomis
Soul looking into soul
The verbal adjective βλεπτέον expresses what must be done: the soul must look into soul if it is to know itself.
Alcibiades I
Soulless
Apsychos means without soul.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Sound
Psophos is sound or noise, particularly as an effect of impact, rupture, or movement.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook+1 book
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