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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 V
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Valerandus Sylvensis
Valerandus Sylvensis is named beside Denis Zachaire in the discussion of the Rosarium's crude mercury.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Value
Peri pollou poieisthai means set great store by; value highly.
Lysis · Centuries of Meditations
Vanity
Vanity can mean emptiness and futility, not only excessive pride in appearance.
Centuries of Meditations
Vanity
Vanité is a passion associated with temperament and the wish to please.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Vapor and cloud
Vapor is a subtle, spreading material image; clouds can carry color or obstruct illumination.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Variation of customs and the companion's objection
“Different ones at different times” and “different people different ones” express temporal and social variation.
Minos
Variety
Variety is difference within an abundance.
Centuries of Meditations
Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman scholar.
Centuries of Meditations
Vegetation
Vegetation means plant growth and activity in the single selected fragment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Vegetation and Growth
Vegetation here means entering an act of growth or generation, not simply the class of plants.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Vehicle of nourishment
Ὄχημα is a vehicle or carrier; τροφή is nourishment.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Vehicle of the soul
Ochēma is a vehicle or conveyance.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Veil
A veil can clothe without rigidly enclosing, separate without becoming a wall, or temper light without extinguishing it.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Vein
Phleps denotes a vein or vessel.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Ventricle
Ventricle can name a cavity or chamber, but it can also mean the stomach.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Verse
Epos means word or saying; here, a line of verse.
Lysis · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Verve
Verve is creative impulse or animation.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Vibration and undulation
Vibration and undulation describe oscillating or spreading movement.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Vice
Vice identifies a morally defective disposition or source of distortion.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Vice and wickedness
Ponēros means wicked; bad in conduct; troublesome.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
Victory
Nikē means victory; a success publicly celebrated.
Lysis
Vine and grape seed
Vitis names the vine; vinaceum semen here its grape seed.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Violent Gold Preparation
Page 69 describes a particular prepared gold that strikes about and thrusts when disturbed at the wrong time.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Virgil
Virgil appears in the argument for contextual classical reading and, only in the supplied 1861 coastal witness, as the poet of a small domestic landscape.
The Green Notebook
Virtue
Vertu names moral excellence and the capacity for right conduct.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Virtue and excellence
Aretē denotes excellence or virtue; the dialogue's explicit form is the dative singular aretēi.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+2 books
Virtue as an indivisible quality
Virtus here primarily means intellectual or ethical excellence, rather than merely effective power.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Visible
Horatos describes what can be seen.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Visible manifest invisible and seen through
Horatos means visible, phaneros manifest or openly evident, aoratos invisible.
Epinomis
Vision
Vision may name a prophetic scene, ordinary seeing, or the blessed apprehension associated with heaven.
Centuries of Meditations
Visual compaction
Piloumenas means being pressed or compacted, with an association of close packing or felting.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Visual stream
Optikon pneuma is the breath or pneuma assigned a role in sight.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Vital and animal spirits
These phrases name historical physiological agents.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Vital harmony and its producer
The local glosses distinguish harmony, fitting arrangement and concord.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Vital motion, action and passion
Vicissitudo is alternation or succession.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Vitriol
Vitriol illustrates specified efficacy as well as mistaken universal identification.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
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