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 T
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Table
Table may mean an ordinary household furnishing, but a painter’s table is a prepared panel or ground upon which a picture is made.
Centuries of Meditations
Taking away
Aphaireō means take away; deprive, or have something taken away.
Lysis
Taking back and draughts
Ἀνατίθεσθαι is here to take back or retract a move already made.
Hipparchus
Talent
Talent is an ability that can be exercised, conserved or given a determinate form.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Talent and pound
Talent and pound describe what has been entrusted, not what the possessor may consume without account.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Tanagra and Boeotia
Tanagra is the named battle-site; the Boeotians are one of the peoples whose dead Socrates includes with Athenians and Spartans.
Alcibiades I
Tartar Preparations
Tartar appears through several differentiated preparations: volatile salt, pure fixed salt associated with a green stone and sanguine essence, oil, and rightly prepared reviving salt.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Taste
Geusis denotes tasting.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+2 books
Taureas
Taureou is the genitive of Taureas: the palaestra is identified as “Taureas'.”
Charmides
Teacher, care and waiting
The prospective educator is described as the man who cares about Alcibiades; paideusōn names the one who will educate.
Alcibiades II
Teachers
A διδάσκαλος is a teacher; διδάσκειν is to teach, and διδασκαλία instruction or teaching.
Alcibiades I · Lysis
Teaching without loss
Docere is to teach; oblivisci to forget; transitus a passage or transfer.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Tears
Tears can express many kinds of sorrow.
Centuries of Meditations · The Green Notebook+2 books
Temper and mood
Humeur concerns temper or disposition, sometimes with older bodily associations.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Temperament and harmony
Temperatio and complexio concern a bodily constitution or mixture, not primarily mood or skin color.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Temperament, flux and the stable ruler
Complexio is humoral and bodily temperament.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Temple
A temple is a place set apart for divine worship.
Centuries of Meditations
Temporal discourse and psychic ascent
Discursus is successive passage, including movement from one cognition or affection to another.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Temptation
Temptation is an inducement toward wrong and, through that inducement, a trial of faithfulness.
Centuries of Meditations
Tendering
Tendering means cherishing, regarding with care, or treating as precious.
Centuries of Meditations
Tenderness
Tendresse is an affective disposition whose strength need not take the form of exaltation or constant gratification.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Tension
Tonos is tension or tautness.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Tentative assent
Isōs and tacha can express possibility or hesitation; eoiken often marks what seems to be the case.
Charmides
Tenuity
Ténuité names extreme thinness or fineness in these material comparisons.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Terminating in an end
Teleutaō means end; come to a conclusion or terminate in something.
Lysis
Tertullian
Tertullian is named at p. 151 for the distinction between knowing God from the World's workmanship and recognizing him from the preaching of his Word.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Test and refutation
Elenchein is to test and expose, challenge or refute.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+3 books
Testimonium
A testimonium is evidence supplied by another author about a thinker, a work or a doctrine.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Testimony
Martys is a witness, someone able to attest a matter.
Theages · Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum+1 book
Tetractys
Tetraktys names the arrangement of the first four numbers whose sum is ten.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Tetrad
Tetras is four taken as a numerical group or principle.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Text
Texte can be the verbal material to develop, the wording to translate or quote, and the stated original distinguished from a paraphrase.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Textual transmission and editorial signs
Textual transmission concerns the witnesses and editorial decisions through which the printed Greek is available.
Alcibiades I · Alcibiades II+4 books
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is gratitude expressed toward a giver.
Centuries of Meditations
The Abyss, Vertigo, and the Wing
Gouffre names an abyss rather than a single object of fear.
Intimate Journals
The classical
Classique is explicitly tested through teachability and exemplary value.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–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
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