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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 collectionsEntries
2,845–2,880 of 2,960
Vital motion, action and passion
Vicissitudo is alternation or succession.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Vitriol
Vitriol illustrates specified efficacy as well as mistaken universal identification.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Vivacity
Vivacity is rapid or lively mental and expressive movement.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Voarch Beth Adamoth
Voarch Beth Adamoth is a capitalized expression left unexplained by Khunrath.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Vocation
Vocation is used here as a reading head for Guérin’s language of mission, destiny, usefulness, and ministry.
The Green Notebook · René
Voice
Phōnē can mean voice or sound.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Voice and selfhood
Voice is the audible means by which these worlds announce persons, distinguish identities and sometimes misclassify the source of an utterance.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Void
The substantivized adjective names the void; the adjective itself can mean empty.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+2 books
Voltaire and the Refusal of Mystery
Voltaire serves in LI–LII less as an exhaustively read historical author than as the name of an intellectual manner Baudelaire rejects: the brisk exposure of sacred claims as bodily absurdities.
Intimate Journals
Voluntary
Hekousios describes what is voluntary.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Voluntary rule force and unlimited ambition
Bia is force or violence; biai, its dative, means by force.
Theages
Vortex
Dinē is a whirl or vortex; dinēsis emphasizes the activity of whirling.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Votive offerings
Anathēmata are dedicated offerings, gifts set up in a sanctuary.
Alcibiades II
Vulcan
Vulcan names the fire-agent assisting lawful preparation of the Stone on page 55.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Wage
Misthos means wage, payment for service.
Lysis
Waking
Egrēgorenai means to be awake, a state distinguished from the transition of waking up.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Walker on air
Aithrobatēs names a walker on air or the open sky; in this passage it is Abaris’ epithet.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Wandering
Πλανᾶσθαι means to wander or go astray.
Alcibiades I
War
Polemos is war or armed conflict and can also enter broader images of opposition.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
War and peace
Πόλεμος names war and πολεμεῖν making or waging war.
Alcibiades I
Warmth and cold in generation
B65 names cold and, in an editorial supplement, heat; B67 uses the comparative “warmer” for the region associated with a male-bearing belly.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Wash and be clean
“Be ye washed, be ye clean” stands in the p. 106 margin beside an account of the truth tasted in a heart and brain theosophically cleansed of sophistries.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Washing-gold
Native washing-gold introduces the passage on poisonous volatile materials associated with certain ores and metals.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Wasting and consumption
Phthisis is wasting or diminution, the loss that something undergoes as its material is used up or passes away.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Water
Hydōr is water, both an ordinary substance and a proposed constituent or principle.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+4 books
Water of Permanence
The permanent or abiding water is a philosophical water characterized by persistence.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Wave
Kyma is a wave or surge.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Wax nose
The wax nose is an image of wording that can be bent to serve the interpreter.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Weakness
Astheneia is weakness or lack of strength.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+1 book
Wealth
Plousios means rich.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+3 books
Wealth of understanding
Plouton is wealth, used metaphorically of understanding.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Wealth, bodily strength and fortune
The acquisition of money and strength of body are named advantages carried by the fair wind of fortune.
Alcibiades II
Weariness
Fatigue and lassitude register the limits of present capacity, especially the mind’s capacity to continue work or judgment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Weariness and agility
Fatigare concerns tiring; labor toil; operosus laborious.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Weather indication
Episēmasia is an indication or sign, here connected with weather.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Weaving and world fabric
Machina designates an organized construction or fabric here; tela is a woven web, and retexere is to weave again or renew the weaving.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
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