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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
2,665–2,700 of 3,466
Retraction
Anatithenai in the active can mean set up or dedicate; the middle form anatheimēn at 164c–d means take back or retract.
Charmides
Retreat
Retraite can mean withdrawal, a sheltered place, or a specifically religious period of exercises.
The Green Notebook
Retribution
Tisis is requital or retribution, often the payment exacted for wrongdoing.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Return and turning back
Epistrophē is a turning or orientation toward something.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Returning, referring and reducing
Referre carries or refers something back; reducere leads back; redigere brings into a state or reduces to a principle.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Revelation
Revelation means a making known of what was concealed.
Centuries of Meditations · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Revenge
Revenge is retaliation for a wrong, and may name a desired satisfaction before any act occurs.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Reverie
Reverie is an inward condition from which verse may emerge.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · René
Reviewing the argument
Anapempazomai means count over; review a series item by item.
Lysis
Reviving Salts
The “reviving salts,” Salia resuscitatiua, occur in a primary marginal gloss on page 69.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Revolution
Révolution may describe transformation, but these witnesses concern political upheaval and the motives that give it character.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Intimate Journals
Rhadamanthys, Talos, and divided responsibilities
Rhadamanthys and Talos are personal names.
Minos
Rhapsode
A rhapsode is a performer of verse; the related verbs mean to recite in that capacity.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Rhazes
Rhazes is the authority named for reading beneath the surface and attending to what is signified by likeness.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Rhetoric
Rhétorique is called the art of persuasion, but its excellence must be distinguished from the truth or moral perfection of what is taught.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Rhythm
Rhythm is a recurring movement of advance and return between poles.
The Kybalion
Rhythm and number
Rythme, also printed rithme, and rhetorical nombre are related but explicitly distinguishable qualities of verbal movement.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Riddle and allusion
Ainigma is a riddle or enigmatic saying; ainittesthai is to speak indirectly or in riddles.
Charmides · Lysis+1 book
Ridiculousness
Katagelastos means ridiculous; liable to be laughed at.
Lysis
Riding and hunting
Τὰ ἱππικά concerns horsemanship; οἱ ἱππικοί are those skilled in it.
Alcibiades I
Right and apparent law
Orthos means straight or right, and in the argument correct; orthōs is “rightly.”
Minos
Right and left
The Latin phrases mean from the right-hand and left-hand parts.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Right hand
The right hand is an emblem of fidelity, agreement, and the trustworthy communication of an obligation.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Righteousness
Righteousness is moral rightness, including giving what is due.
Centuries of Meditations
Ring-engraving
Δακτυλιογλυφία is ring-engraving; δακτύλιος a ring.
Alcibiades I
Ripening
Ripening is the completion of an embryonic metallic condition.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Ripley
Ripley is the edition's identification of the Latinized Ryplæus in a single marginal maxim.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Rising
Anatolē is rising, especially that of a heavenly body, and can also designate the eastern direction associated with sunrise.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Rising of a star
Epitolē is a rising or appearance above the horizon, used here of stars.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Ristius
Ristius is the name attached to a brief maxim about beginnings and ends.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Ritual
Ritual is an ordered performance of words and actions that represents the work of initiation.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Rivalry, argumentative standing, and shame
Apechtheia denotes enmity or hostility.
Theages
River
Potamos is a river, whether in descriptions of the inhabited world or in narratives of the underworld.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
River diversion
The vocabulary joins rivers, expenditure from one’s own resources, mixing, and making sweet.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Rivets of affection
B87 describes Aphrodite as having worked something with rivets of affection.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Roads and Steiria
Ὁδός means road or way.
Hipparchus
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