Words · Meanings · Passages
Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,393 entries across 21 collectionsTerms beginning with S
181–216 of 310
Sound
Psophos is sound or noise, particularly as an effect of impact, rupture, or movement.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook+1 book
Sound and voice
Son, voix and bruit overlap in auditory contexts but are not interchangeable.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
South wind
Notos names a south wind.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Southwest wind
Lips is the name of a southwestern wind.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Sowing and weaving
Serere sows; parere brings forth; tela is a woven fabric or web; retexere can weave again.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Space
Space is the room in which bodies are situated and move.
Centuries of Meditations · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Space and place
Espace and lieu are neighboring rather than interchangeable words.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Spark, globe and luminous vehicles
Scintilla is spark, flamma flame and orbis a circular figure or orb.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Sparta and Lacedaemon
Lacedaemon and the Lacedaemonians are the Greek names rendered in context as Sparta and the Spartans, one of the two principal external standards for Alcibiades’ intended leadership.
Alcibiades I · Alcibiades II
Sparta Crete and Lycurgus
Lakedaimonios is a Lacedaemonian or Spartan; Lakedaimōn names Lacedaemon.
Minos
Spartan disciplines
The catalogue attributes orderliness (kosmiotēs), readiness or facility (euchereia), easy temper (eukolia), good discipline (eutaxia), endurance (karteria), love of toil (philoponia), love of victory (philonikia), and ambitions for honour (philotimiai) to the Spartans, alongside temperance, high-mindedness and courage.
Alcibiades I
Species in perception
Species can mean a form, appearance, impression or representation through which something is apprehended.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Specification
Specification is the determining of universal matter toward a definite kind.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Specified first matter
Specified first matter is first matter considered under the determining kind of silver or gold, rather than as the universal source of all metals.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Spectacle
A spectacle is something beheld, especially a striking or affecting scene.
Centuries of Meditations
Speech
Διαλέγεσθαι is talking or conversing with another; διάλογοι are conversations.
Alcibiades I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Speech and utterance
Rhēma means word; an expression in speech.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Speech, perception, and their objects
Logos here is speech, contrasted with the things spoken.
Minos
Spending and receiving
Ἀναλίσκειν means to spend or expend; λαμβάνειν means to take, receive or get.
Hipparchus
Spending time and the limits of instruction
Diatribein can mean to occupy or spend time; syndiatribein adds explicit companionship, “spend time with”.
Theages
Spending time in conversation
Diatribē means occupation, way of spending time; here, chiefly conversation.
Lysis
Sphairos
Sphairos is the masculine form printed for the rounded being in B 27–29.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Sphere
A Sphere is the three-dimensional body whose plane sections are circles.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Sphere
Sphaira is a sphere, occurring in geometry and in accounts of the heavens.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Sphere and circle
This grouped family connects three distinct round forms: globe as a body, sphere as an encompassing domain, and circle as a geometrical boundary or figure.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Spheres and stars
Sphaera and globus name a cosmic sphere or globe; caelum heaven; stella an individual star; sidus may designate a constellation or stellar configuration.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Spindle
Atraktos is a spindle, the tool whose turning produces thread.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Spine
Rhachis is the spine or backbone.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Spirit
Spiritus may name a cognitive or physiological medium; spiritalis may describe incorporeal activity or principles.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Spirit
Spirit may name the Holy Spirit, a created soul, or an animating disposition.
Centuries of Meditations · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Spirit of the World
The Spirit of the World is the hidden natural power whose presence animates the material world.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Spirit of Truth
The Spirit of Truth speaks within two different rhetorical situations: an exhortation to the children of doctrine to hear, and the hostile challenge adapted from Zedekiah.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Spirit of Wine
Spirit of wine is named once in the main laboratory catalogue as a material employed in preparing silver and gold.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Spirit of Wisdom
Khunrath invokes RVACH HHOCHMAH-EL and immediately gives its German meaning, the Spirit of the Wisdom of God.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Spiritual equality, the line, and the tuned lyre
Aequalitas can mean equality, evenness or proportionate order; consonantia is concord or harmony.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Spiritual images and light
An image is “spiritual” here insofar as its cognitive presentation is not the material object or a bodily quality entering as matter.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, 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
199 entries · 4,732 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