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Word or phrase Comment

Adiaphora indifferent
Agathos the good
Agxinoia quick moral sense
Aidmosyne sense of honor
Amathia ignorance in the sense of lack of wisdom (leading to moral error, appearing as evil)
Andreia courage, fortitude (cardinal virtue)
Apatheia freedom from disturbing desires and emotions, or passions
Apoprogmena dispreferred indifferents
Aproptsia non-precipitancy (in judgment)
Aret virtue, excellence at one's function
Argos logos the lazy argument (if everything is determined, whats the point of doing anything?)
Ataraxia absence of fear
Boulsis rational desire for virtue (positive emotion)
Chara rational elation toward virtue (positive emotion)
Dikaiosyn justice, integrity (cardinal virtue)
Eleutheria freedom from passions
Enkrateia self control
Epistem knowledge
Epistroph philosophical conversion
Epithumia irrational striving for something not valuable (negative emotion)
thik ethics
thos one's character
Euboulia good judgment
Eu dai mona flourishing, by means of living an ethical life
Eulabeia rational aversion toward vice (positive emotion)
Eumchania resourcefulness, knowing what to do in difficulties
Eupatheiai healthy passions
Eupsychia mental stoutness
Euroia biou smooth flow of life
Eutrapelia wittiness (a social grace)
Gnthi sauton know thyself
Hdon irrational pleasure over something not valuable (negative emotion)
Hgemonikon conscious ruling faculty
Homologia harmony
Horm action (discipline of)
Hypoexairsis Sage reservation (fate permitting)
Hypomnemata reminder, a written spiritual exercise to ingrain precepts and for later review, Marcus Meditations being an example
Hupolpsis value judgment (to be suspended)
Kalos honorable, beautiful
Kata physin according to nature
Kathkon appropriate, rational, action (the thing one ought to do)
Katorthmata acts of a virtuous person
Koinnikai common welfare of mankind
Logik logic (including rhetoric and epistemology)
Logos rational principle governing the universe
Lup irrational grief at failure (negative emotion)
Megalopsychia literally, great-souledness: magnanimity
Oikeisis properly yours, leading to Hierocles circle of expanding affection
Orexis desire (discipline of)
Orthos logos right motives

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Word or phrase Comment
Paidartan taking time off to calm down before responding to a situation
Path unhealthy emotions / passions
Phantasia katalptik an impression that grips us, something self evident
Philanthrpia love of mankind
Philostorgia natural affection (of parents toward their children)
Phobos irrational fear (negative emotion)
Prokoptn (pl. prokoptontes; female sing. prokoptousa; female pl. prokoptousai) someone who is making progress as a Stoic
Prosoch the practice of attention
Prospon the kind of person one is, ones chosen identity
Phronsis practical wisdom (cardinal virtue), rendered in Latin as prudentia
Physika theoria theoretical understanding
Physik physics (meaning all natural science and metaphysics)
Politeia the (ideal) Republic
Progmena preferred indifferents
Prohairesis volition, our capacity for choice, rendered in Latin as voluntas
Propatheiai involuntary emotional reactions
Prosoch applying key ethical precepts to the present moment, mindfulness
Skopos the target of an action
Sophia wisdom
Sophos the wise man, Sage
Sphrosyn self discipline, temperance (cardinal virtue)
Sunkatathesis assent (discipline of)
Techn craftsmanship, art
Telos the purpose of an action
Tharraleots confidence that nothing terrible can befall us