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
73–108 of 153
Things up in the sky
Meteōros means raised or up aloft.
The Lovers
Thinking and valuing
Hēgeomai means think or judge; regard something as having a certain value.
Lysis
Thinking fit
Axioun means to think fit, judge worthy or claim as appropriate.
Hipparchus
Thirst
Dipsaō means be thirsty; thirst.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis is the devotional writer cited for the exchange of all for all.
Centuries of Meditations
Thought
Dianoia means thought, meaning, or intellectual content of the compositions.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+4 books
Thought in blood
The principal phrase means to think above all with blood.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Thoughtland and the changing use of an imagined place
Thoughtland names a country of thought, but its referent changes.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Thracians
The ethnic adjective Thrāix, “Thracian,” appears as both a plural identifying the doctors and a singular naming Socrates' claimed teacher.
Charmides
Thread and spinning
Thread links a hidden store to an extended form.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Three offices and the order of proof
Officium is a function or characteristic task.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Three-hundred-letter collection
Khunrath says he has assembled one book containing nearly three hundred letters written by Nature.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Three-part soul
Trimerēs means three-part or threefold.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Throne
A throne signifies the seat and exercise of sovereignty.
Centuries of Meditations
Through itself and through another
Per se, per aliud, ab alio, and ex se mark different relations of intrinsic capacity, mediation, external agency, and source.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Thrust
Proōsis is a forward push or thrust.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Thunder
Brontē is thunder, the audible phenomenon explained alongside lightning and the thunderbolt.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Thunderbolt
Keraunos denotes the thunderbolt.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Thurii and Syracuse
Thourious and Syrakousas are the inflected place-names Thurii and Syracuse; Syrakosion means Syracusan.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Timaeus’ refutation
Antirrhēsis is contradiction or refutation; paradoxologos disparagingly characterizes a teller of marvels.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Timarchus, the murder plot, and the condemned men
Epiboulē is a plot or hostile design; apokteinein means to kill.
Theages
Time
Chronos is time; akribeia exactness or precision, and akribōs precisely.
Epinomis · Stobaeus, Volume I+7 books
Time and place
Hōra means a season or appropriate time; chōra means a place, region or tract of country.
Hipparchus
Time, memory and expectation
Simul means together or at once.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Timing and duration
Hote and hopote ask or specify when; chronos is time or duration.
Alcibiades II
Tinging and Staining
Tinging can mean colouring, but a transmuting tincture claims much more.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Tomb and memorial
Taphos is a tomb, mnēmeion a memorial, agalmation a small statue or image, and sēkos an enclosure or shrine.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Tongue
Glōssa and glōtta are forms of the same word for tongue, also capable of denoting language.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Tortoises
The inflected plural χελύων names tortoises in the edition’s translation of B76.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Touch
Haphē denotes touch.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II+1 book
Touch and bodily proof
Feeling means recognition by bodily contact as well as the more general capacity for sensation.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Touch and penetration
Tangere is to touch; penetrare to pass through or reach into; resistere and obstare to resist or obstruct; attingere to reach or make contact.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Touch, traversal, and the rejection of bodily contact
Tactus can be bodily contact or the metaphorical “touch” of intellectual grasp.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Touchstone and the all-properties test
The touchstone is a figure for discrimination: it tests a claimant or candidate without itself producing the desired substance.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Town country and demes
Ἄστυ is the town or urban centre.
Hipparchus
Traces
Vestigium is a trace or sign left in an effect by its source; vestigia is plural.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, 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