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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,393 entries across 21 collectionsEntries
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Tetrad
Tetras is four taken as a numerical group or principle.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Text
Texte can be the verbal material to develop, the wording to translate or quote, and the stated original distinguished from a paraphrase.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Textual transmission and editorial signs
Textual transmission concerns the witnesses and editorial decisions through which the printed Greek is available.
Alcibiades I · Alcibiades II+4 books
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is gratitude expressed toward a giver.
Centuries of Meditations
The Abyss, Vertigo, and the Wing
Gouffre names an abyss rather than a single object of fear.
Intimate Journals
The classical
Classique is explicitly tested through teachability and exemplary value.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
The cloister as refuge and demanding community
Cloître can designate the enclosed space or, more broadly, religious life; couvent and monastère name its institution, while asile stresses shelter.
René
The cultivated and the many
Χαρίεις means graceful, refined or cultivated; the comparative χαριέστερος gives “more cultivated.”
Hipparchus
The dream hypothesis
Onar means dream.
Charmides
The Editor and the revised Preface
The Editor is the fictional Spacelander who speaks for an imprisoned and ageing Square in the Preface.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
The Fall, Creation, and Duality
Chute can signify the theological Fall and an actual downward movement.
Intimate Journals
The marvelous
The marvelous is what opens wonder beyond ordinary experience or gives discourse an arresting quality.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
The Mother, Jeanne, and Dependent Love
The recurring mother and Jeanne give the late notebook a network of obligations that resists its assertions of absolute self-sufficiency.
Intimate Journals
The Natchez and the colonial frame
The Louisiana frame is a represented colonial contact zone, not an empty natural backdrop.
René
The Newspaper, Atrocity, and Public Appetite
Journal and gazette mean the newspaper here, not the private notebook suggested by the English title Intimate Journals.
Intimate Journals
The paternal house
The paternal château is a family building, inherited property and a remembered arrangement of relationships.
René
The royal statue and execution
The statue is a public object that points toward the site of a royal death.
René
The self itself and each self
The emphatic αὐτό, “itself,” combines at 129b with ταὐτό, the contracted form of τὸ αὐτό.
Alcibiades I
The ship in a storm
Naus means ship; the text has its dative nēi, “in a ship.”
The Lovers
The stellar living kind and its excellent body and soul
Astron is a star or heavenly body; the dialogue uses the plural broadly in its celestial discussion.
Epinomis
The synoptic bond of the studies
Diagramma is a figure or diagram; systēma a structured system; systasis a combination or constitution; homologia agreement; and desmos a bond.
Epinomis
The three middle kinds and their changing numbers
Mesos means middle; metaxy between.
Epinomis
The top master builder
Architektōn is a master builder, the leading practitioner responsible for building work.
The Lovers
The two reviews and the management of admiration
The reviews reprinted with the work are reception documents: they show how particular contemporary readers publicly explained and valued René.
René
The Two Simultaneous Aspirations
Postulations are directed movements or aspirations, not logical postulates.
Intimate Journals
The unnamed ancient and composed dying
The unnamed ancient is a classical example invoked by René when he plans to watch his own departure from life with deliberate attention.
René
The unnamed companion
Ἑταῖρος means companion or associate.
Hipparchus
The unnamed poet’s prayer
The unnamed poet addresses King Zeus, asking for good things with or without prayer and for the warding off of wretched things even when requested.
Alcibiades II
The unnamed young man
Νεανίσκος means a young man.
Hipparchus
The Vague of the Passions
As an adjective vague means undefined or indistinct; as a substantive, le vague names the unbounded, unassigned condition of faculties not yet fixed upon an object.
René
The whole mind and the measure of equality
Se toto means with its whole self.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
The wise man’s silence and the others’ praise
Sigan means to be silent; the aorist esigēsen reports that the cultivated lover fell silent.
The Lovers
The wrestler’s neck
Trachēlos means neck.
The Lovers
Theater
Théâtre can be a place of performance or an image for public display, competition and judgment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations
Theatre, the Actor, and the Chandelier
Comédien means a theatrical actor, not specifically a comedian.
Intimate Journals
Theft of discourses
Logoklopia is theft of discourse or argument; the compound marks an accusation rather than a neutral account of intellectual borrowing.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, 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
199 entries · 4,732 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