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
217–252 of 309
Spleen
Spleen is an organ, but also a word for spite, ill will or ill temper.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Spontaneous occurrence
The substantivized expression concerns what happens of itself.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Spring
Printemps names the season, but Guérin also writes spring as awakening, unfolding, warmth, and new greenery.
The Green Notebook
Spring
Ressort names a spring or spring-like force, and can locate what sets a person, style, or polity in motion.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Spring and source
Pēgē is a spring or source.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Square and quadrilateral
Tetragōnon denotes a four-angled figure and, where equal-sided numerical construction is intended, a square.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Stable craftsman and the river reflection
Figura is shape or configuration, not automatically a mental image.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Stammering
The verb evokes stammering or inarticulate utterance.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Standard of judgment
Horos means boundary, standard, determining criterion.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Star
Astēr names a star or heavenly body.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Star-shot
Star-shot is a vernacular material-name in the rival candidate list.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
State and settlement
Katastasis is a state, arrangement, or settled condition.
Stobaeus, Volume I
State, gradual loss, and draining away
Hexis is a condition or state, often something one has or holds.
Theages
Statesman and the political craft
Politikos can mean political or skilled in civic affairs; used of a person it is the statesman.
The Lovers · Theages
Statue
Agalma can name an object of delight or honor, especially a statue or sacred image.
Charmides · Stobaeus, Volume I
Statue and solidity
Statua is a statue; lapis stone; aes, attested as aeris, bronze or copper alloy.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Staying and preserving
Stare stands or remains stable; manere abides.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Steersman
Kybernētēs is a helmsman or steersman, a skilled director of a vessel’s movement.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Stellar size appearance and the inference to a divine mover
Megethos is size or magnitude, onkos bulk.
Epinomis
Stereometry and three dimensional number
Stereometria is solid-measuring, the study corresponding to solid rather than plane magnitude.
Epinomis
Steward
The Haußhalter is the wealthy person as steward of God's property.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Stichblat
Stichblat occurs in the margin continuing from p. 60 to p. 61.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Stomach
The stomach is both an organ felt as a bodily demand and a model of transforming what is received.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Stone
Lithos is stone, a rock, or a particular piece of stony material.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook+1 book
Stone and marble
Stone and marble exemplify apparent solidity, transformed matter, and the resistance an artist must work with.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Stork and reciprocal love
The stork is the bird to which Socrates compares his own love.
Alcibiades I
Storm
Storm has no single French equivalent here.
The Green Notebook · René
Straight
Euthys means straight; its feminine form can stand for an understood straight line.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Straitened and bowels
To be straitened is to be narrowed, cramped, or confined.
Centuries of Meditations
Strangeness
Strange can mean unfamiliar, remarkable, or foreign.
Centuries of Meditations
Strangeness and absurdity
Atopos can mark something as strange, odd or out of place.
Charmides
Strato, Chrysippus, and the Almariani
The proper names identify positions as Ficino presents them.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Streaks and rods
Rhabdos is a rod or staff; by resemblance, it can name an elongated appearance of light.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Stream and current
Rheuma is a flow or current, emphasizing the movement of water rather than simply the channel containing it.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Strength
Ischys is strength, the ability to exert force or withstand opposition.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Strife
Neikos denotes strife or conflict.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+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