Words · Meanings · Passages
Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
5,005 entries across 25 collectionsEntries
2,521–2,556 of 3,466
Punishment, desire and restless motion
Poetic punishments and frustrated desires supply images for elusive matter, repeated circulation, fixed confinement and passions persisting after death.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Pupil
Mathētēs means pupil, learner; one formed by another’s teaching or example.
Lysis
Pupil of the eye
Κόρη can mean girl or doll and also the pupil of an eye.
Alcibiades I · Stobaeus, Volume I+1 book
Pure and unmixed
Eilikrinēs describes purity or freedom from admixture.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pure poetry
‘Pure Poetry’ appears as the imagined region reached by a transformation of media and tone.
Intimate Journals
Purgatory and hope
Purgatory is the Christian state of purification before heavenly life.
René
Purgatory, beatitude and eternal suffering
Purgatory names a place of purification before complete blessedness.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Purging
Purging is the evacuation of bodily matter.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Purification
Katharsis names purification.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Purification and fasting
Katharmoi means purifications and appears as a work-title in the editorial headings and in Theon's report at B153a.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Purifier
Kathartēs is a purifier, an agent noun related to purification.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Purity
Purity is freedom from corrupting mixture or defilement.
Centuries of Meditations
Purity and innocence
Purity can mean freedom from moral stain, clarity of an impression, integrity of feeling, or the fresh unspoiled condition of nature.
The Green Notebook
Purity and mixture
Purus and puritas describe absence of an alien admixture.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Purity and the white garment
Purity is an inward condition of rectitude and preparation.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Purity, homogeneity and heterogeneity
Purity is a condition of the work's subject, while homogeneity concerns the enduring relation of its parts.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I · Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Purple of sea dye
Halourgēs and related halourgos describe a purple associated with sea dye.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pursuit and practice
Epitēdeuma is a pursuit, occupation, or practiced way of acting.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Putrefaction
Putrefaction is the corrupting or destructive passage through which a new generation becomes possible.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II+2 books
Pygmalion and character
Pygmalion and Galatea furnish the image of an ideal brought to life.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Pyramid
Pyramis names a pyramid.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Pyrilampes
Pyrilampous is the genitive of Pyrilampes, identified as Charmides' maternal uncle.
Charmides
Pyrrhus and Cineas
Pyrrhus is the conquering king in the anecdote, and Cineas the philosophical counsellor who questions his purpose.
Centuries of Meditations
Pythagoras and sacred number
Pythagoras is invoked as an ancient teacher and initiate.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Pythagoreans
These forms name the Pythagoreans or characterize someone as Pythagorean.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Pythocleides
One of the wise men with whom Pericles is said to have associated; the dative is governed by the verb of keeping company.
Alcibiades I
Pythodorus and Isolochus
Pythodorus, identified by his father Isolochus, is one of the two pupils Socrates attributes to Zeno.
Alcibiades I
Quail-lover
Philortyx means fond of quails; a quail-lover.
Lysis
Quail-tapping
The epithet printed for Meidias means quail-tapper or quail-striker, a person associated with striking the bird in a game.
Alcibiades I
Qualification and attribution
These phrases limit a predication, introduce approximate wording, express a tentative judgment, or attribute a claim.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Quality
Poiotēs names quality.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II+1 book
Quantity
Poson designates quantity or how much something is.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II+1 book
Quantity and quality
Ξηρός means dry and ὑγρός wet; in the examples they distinguish food and drink.
Hipparchus · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Quarrel
Dēris means strife or contention, and Eris belongs to the same field of quarrelling.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Quarreling, contention, and love of victory
Eris means strife or quarrel, and erizein is to quarrel or dispute.
The Lovers · Lysis
Quarry
Agra means quarry, game; what is being hunted.
Lysis
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