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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
289–309 of 309
Surface
Epiphaneia is a surface, considered separately from the solid body it bounds or from a line.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Surface and depth
Surface and depth give spatial form to questions about visibility, explanation, and genuine thought.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Surgery and extermination
The heading joins bodily correction to the killing that follows when correction is refused or judged impossible.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Surpassing and comparison
Praestare, superare, and excedere express surpassing, while melior and praestantior compare goodness or excellence.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Suspicion
Hypopsia means suspicion; a misgiving about an apparent result.
Lysis
Swarm and fanaticism
The swarm joins noise, numbers and wayward imagining.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Swarmament
Swarmament renders Khunrath's Schwermament, the p. 85 distortion of Firmament.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Sweat
Hidrōs means sweat.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Sweet
Glykys is sweet.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Sweet, bitter, sour, hot
B90 pairs each quality with its like: sweet with sweet, bitter with bitter, sour with sour, and hot with hot.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Sweetness
Sweetness begins in taste but readily names gentleness, delight, and the felt goodness of a relation.
Centuries of Meditations
Swerve
Parenklisis is a swerve away from a course.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Swift-One and Slow-One
The two feminine names are rendered as swiftness and slowness embodied: Swift-One and Slow-One.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Symbol
A symbol makes something beyond immediate appearance perceptible through a figure or image.
The Green Notebook · Intimate Journals
Sympathy
Sympatheia and related forms concern being affected together or responding in correspondence.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+2 books
Sympathy and antipathy
Sympathy joins the ideas of together and affection or suffering; antipathy joins against with affection.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Synderesis
Synderesis, printed “Synteresis,” is the innate preservation or grasp of moral principles, by which good and evil are known.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Synoptic-catholic concentration
Synopticè-Catholicè names the comprehensive manner in which the world-spirit dwells in Magnesia.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Synthesis
Synthesis is putting together.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
System
Système, frequently printed systhème, can mean an invented doctrinal construction or a connected ordering of the world.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
System and organized whole
Systēma is a whole whose constituents are brought together.
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