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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 Z
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Zalmoxis
Zalmoxis is the name of the figure whom the unnamed Thracian doctor calls “our king, who is a god.”
Charmides
Zasius and the stronger reason
Zasius is the jurist named in the margin for the principle that one stronger reason defeats several weaker ones.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Zeal
Zeal is fervent concern expressed in energetic pursuit.
Centuries of Meditations
Zedekiah and Micaiah
The prophetic confrontation on p. 180 imagines a Zedekiah striking Micaiah and demanding whether the Spirit of Truth has left him to speak through the other.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Zeno
A named teacher whose association with two paying pupils is offered by Socrates as a contrast with Pericles’ unproved educational success.
Alcibiades I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Zeus
Zeus is invoked in oaths and appeals and named as the ultimate source of prestigious genealogies.
Alcibiades I · Alcibiades II+2 books
Zeus Hera and the place left to traditional gods
Zeus and Hera are named gods; the local forms are Δία and Ἥραν.
Epinomis
Zeus, Europa, and divine relationships
Zeus has a strongly varying inflection: Ζεύς, Διός and Διί are forms of the same name; Ζηνός appears in Hesiod's quoted verse.
Minos
Zinc
Zinc appears in the primary marginal warning continuing from page 49 onto page 50.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Zodiac
Zōidiakos is the adjective “zodiacal,” used with an understood circle to name the oblique circle associated with the zodiac.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Zodiacal figure
Zōidion can denote a small figure and, astronomically, a figure or sign of the zodiac.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Zoogony
Zoogony is the modern organizing headword for the coming-to-be of living creatures.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Zopyrus and Thrace
Zopyrus is the Thracian household slave whom Pericles appointed as Alcibiades’ tutor or attendant.
Alcibiades I
Zoroaster and Horomazes
Zoroaster is named as “of Horomazes” in the description of Magian instruction; the edition takes the relation as sonship.
Alcibiades I
Zoroaster and the mistress of life
The Greek quotation says that the soul remains immortal and is mistress of life.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume 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