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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
2,989–3,024 of 3,466
Stellar size appearance and the inference to a divine mover
Megethos is size or magnitude, onkos bulk.
Epinomis
Stereometry and three dimensional number
Stereometria is solid-measuring, the study corresponding to solid rather than plane magnitude.
Epinomis
Steward
The Haußhalter is the wealthy person as steward of God's property.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Stichblat
Stichblat occurs in the margin continuing from p. 60 to p. 61.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Still
Still very often means continually or always.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Stomach
The stomach is both an organ felt as a bodily demand and a model of transforming what is received.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Stone
Lithos is stone, a rock, or a particular piece of stony material.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook+1 book
Stone and marble
Stone and marble exemplify apparent solidity, transformed matter, and the resistance an artist must work with.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Stork and reciprocal love
The stork is the bird to which Socrates compares his own love.
Alcibiades I
Storm
Storm has no single French equivalent here.
The Green Notebook · René
Straight
Euthys means straight; its feminine form can stand for an understood straight line.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Straitened and bowels
To be straitened is to be narrowed, cramped, or confined.
Centuries of Meditations
Strangeness
Strange can mean unfamiliar, remarkable, or foreign.
Centuries of Meditations
Strangeness and absurdity
Atopos can mark something as strange, odd or out of place.
Charmides
Strato, Chrysippus, and the Almariani
The proper names identify positions as Ficino presents them.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Streaks and rods
Rhabdos is a rod or staff; by resemblance, it can name an elongated appearance of light.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Stream and current
Rheuma is a flow or current, emphasizing the movement of water rather than simply the channel containing it.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Strength
Ischys is strength, the ability to exert force or withstand opposition.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Strife
Neikos denotes strife or conflict.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I+1 book
Striking and beating
Typtō means strike, beat; used of animals and of punishment.
Lysis
String
Chordē means string of the lyre.
Lysis · Stobaeus, Volume I
Stripping the soul
Apodynai is to strip or undress.
Charmides
Striving and enjoyment
Nixus is effort or striving; niti presses toward an outcome; contendere makes for it.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Study and learning
Étude is deliberate study; apprendre can mean learning or teaching in its grammatical context.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+3 books
Stupid
Stupid in this passage means unperceiving, insensible, or lacking the activity of awareness.
Centuries of Meditations
Style
Style is the distinctive manner in which writing takes form and acts upon a reader; its effects cannot always be judged from isolated sentences.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Subject of the art
Subject denotes the matter upon which the art works and whose capacities make its effects possible.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Subject to authority
Hypēkoos means subject to, under another’s authority.
Lysis
Subjects of learning
Mathēma is something learned, a subject or item of learning; mathēmata is its plural.
The Lovers · Theages
Sublimation
Sublimation is named among the preparations by which metals are brought into subtle forms.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I+1 book
Sublime
Sublime marks elevation or exceptional greatness of mind, thought or soul; the cause of that elevation is not always the same.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Green Notebook+1 book
Sublunary evils
Kaka are evils or bad things; katharōteros is purer.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Subsistence
Hypostasis can describe the establishment or continuing reality of something.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations
Substance
Substance ranges from bodily material and a proposed physical constituent to the content of speech.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Kybalion+1 book
Subterranean fire
B 52 says that many fires burn beneath the ground.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Subtlety
Mental subtlety may penetrate a difficult truth, discriminate fine qualities or conceal the absence of a defensible argument.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–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
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