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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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Vivacity
Vivacity is rapid or lively mental and expressive movement.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Voarch Beth Adamoth
Voarch Beth Adamoth is a capitalized expression left unexplained by Khunrath.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Vocation
Vocation is used here as a reading head for Guérin’s language of mission, destiny, usefulness, and ministry.
The Green Notebook · René
Voice
Phōnē can mean voice or sound.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Voice and selfhood
Voice is the audible means by which these worlds announce persons, distinguish identities and sometimes misclassify the source of an utterance.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Void
The substantivized adjective names the void; the adjective itself can mean empty.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+2 books
Voltaire and the Refusal of Mystery
Voltaire serves in LI–LII less as an exhaustively read historical author than as the name of an intellectual manner Baudelaire rejects: the brisk exposure of sacred claims as bodily absurdities.
Intimate Journals
Voluntary
Hekousios describes what is voluntary.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Voluntary rule force and unlimited ambition
Bia is force or violence; biai, its dative, means by force.
Theages
Vortex
Dinē is a whirl or vortex; dinēsis emphasizes the activity of whirling.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Votive offerings
Anathēmata are dedicated offerings, gifts set up in a sanctuary.
Alcibiades II
Vulcan
Vulcan names the fire-agent assisting lawful preparation of the Stone on page 55.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, 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