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I found the scrap of paper that I'd been scribbling unknown words down on. So I went to yourdictionary.com and looked them up.
leman
1. A sweetheart; a lover.
2. A mistress.
This was from an Oscar Wilde story about a man who falls in love with a mermaid. I assumed it meant something like supernatural lover, but it's actually an archaic word for a sweetheart.
eidolon
1. A phantom; an apparition.
2. An image of an ideal.
This was how the Spartan king was described in "The Corn King and the Spring Queen". From the context, the second definition is what was meant.
aition
An aition is just whatever one can cite in answer to a “why?” question. And what we give in answering a “why?” question is an explanation. So an aition is best thought of as an explanation or an explanatory factor.
From the introduction to "Ovid's Metamorphoses". I guessed this one's meaning correctly!
kataleptike phantasia
According to Chrysippus, the criterion of truth is the ‘cognitive impression’ (phantasia katalêptikê, lit. an impression that firmly grasps its object) (Diog. Laert., 40A).
This was also from "The Corn King and the Spring Queen". I had to look this up on a philosophy website, as it is a Stoic term.
leman
1. A sweetheart; a lover.
2. A mistress.
This was from an Oscar Wilde story about a man who falls in love with a mermaid. I assumed it meant something like supernatural lover, but it's actually an archaic word for a sweetheart.
eidolon
1. A phantom; an apparition.
2. An image of an ideal.
This was how the Spartan king was described in "The Corn King and the Spring Queen". From the context, the second definition is what was meant.
aition
An aition is just whatever one can cite in answer to a “why?” question. And what we give in answering a “why?” question is an explanation. So an aition is best thought of as an explanation or an explanatory factor.
From the introduction to "Ovid's Metamorphoses". I guessed this one's meaning correctly!
kataleptike phantasia
According to Chrysippus, the criterion of truth is the ‘cognitive impression’ (phantasia katalêptikê, lit. an impression that firmly grasps its object) (Diog. Laert., 40A).
This was also from "The Corn King and the Spring Queen". I had to look this up on a philosophy website, as it is a Stoic term.
