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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
5,005 entries across 25 collectionsEntries
2,485–2,520 of 3,466
Progress, Freedom, and Fate
Progrès divides into an automatic collective promise and an effort of individual moral change.
Intimate Journals
Progress, retention, and loss
Epididonai can mean to give further, increase or advance; of these companions it means “make progress”.
Theages
Progression
Propodismos is forward progression.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Projected books
The treatise repeatedly points beyond its present boundaries.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Projection
Projection is the application of the prepared metallic medicine upon lower metals.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Proletary
Proletaries are people of the common or lower social ranks; Burton’s battle example means common soldiers.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Prometheus Paradise and the cost of knowledge
Prometheus is the explicitly named mythic bringer of fire, invoked as a model for carrying higher knowledge to others.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Proof
Ἀποδεικνύναι is to show, demonstrate, or prove; ἀπόδειξις a demonstration or proof.
Alcibiades I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
Proper
Proper can mean handsome or well-formed; propernes of person names handsome bodily appearance.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Proper and one's own
Oikeios means one’s own; belonging, related, or naturally akin.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Properties and requisites
The linked vocabulary describes what a proposed subject must be like, what belongs to it, and what is required for its intended work.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Property and peculiarity
Idiotēs is the feature proper to a thing and characteristic of it.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Prophecy interpretation and knowing whether a saying is true
Mantikē is prophecy or divinatory expertise; hermēneutikē the art of interpretation, here concerned with signs and oracular speech.
Epinomis
Prophet and seer
Mantis is a seer or diviner, a person who discloses or interprets divine indications.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Proportion
Proportion concerns relations among parts or the suitability of an expression to its object.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Proportion and analogy
Proportio names a correspondence of relations.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Proportion, health, strength and beauty
Ratio can name an account or a determinate relation; here ratio compositionis concerns the proportion of constituents.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Proposition
A proposition puts a claim into an expressible form.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Propriety
Propriety here usually means property, ownership, or a relation by which something is properly one’s own.
Centuries of Meditations
Prose
Katalogadēn means in prose; in ordinary unmetrical narration.
Lysis · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Prospect
Prospect means a view or the scene presented to sight, including inward or imaginative sight.
Centuries of Meditations
Prostitution
Prostitution is an aggressively transferable word in these notebooks.
Intimate Journals
Protective ignorance
“Protective ignorance” is an explanatory heading, not a phrase supplied by the Greek.
Alcibiades II
Proteus
Protea is the accusative of Proteus; mutantem...
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Proverb
Paroimia means proverb; a traditional saying.
Lysis
Providence
Pronoia can be foresight or providential care.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+5 books
Providential provision
Alimenta are nourishment or food; providere supplies or makes provision as well as foreseeing.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Proximate matter
Proximate matter is the immediately generative matter of all metals named in the p. 54 description of moist unctuous vapour.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Proximity and causal presence
Proximus is nearest, and proxime immediately or most closely.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Prudence
Prudence combines attention to consequences with practical judgment, but Joubert questions it when it serves only the self.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Pseudo-Magnesia
Pseudo-Magnesia is a false candidate taken for genuine Magnesia.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Pseudonymous witnesses
A pseudonymous or dubiously attributed work circulates under a name whose authorship is not accepted or is explicitly qualified.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Puffing up
Chaunoō means puff up, inflate; make someone conceited through praise.
Lysis
Pulse
Sphygmos is a pulse or throbbing movement.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pungent
Drimys describes pungency or a sharp sensory effect.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Punishment
Kolazein is to check, correct, chastise or punish.
The Lovers · Lysis+4 books
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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry Lexicon
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry · R. Swinburne Clymer
131 entries · 495 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Candida Phoenix Philosophica Lexicon
Candida Phoenix Philosophica · Anonymous
155 entries · 478 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
295 entries · 6,097 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Kybalion Lexicon
The Kybalion · Three Initiates
92 entries · 347 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I Lexicon
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I · Attributed to Abraham the Jew
138 entries · 541 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