συμπόσιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">drinking-party, symposium</b>, <span class="bibl">Thgn. 298</span>,<span class="bibl">496</span>, <span class="bibl">Phoc.11</span>, Alc.<span class="title">Supp.</span>23.3, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>9.48</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.78</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>8.8.10</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">σ. κατασκευάσαι, φίλοις παρασχεῖν, συνάγειν</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>363c</span>, Plu.2.198b, <span class="bibl">Ath.5.186c</span>, etc.; παιδαγωγεῖν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>641b</span>.--Pl., X., and Plu. wrote dialogues under this name. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">the party itself, the guests</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">3 Ma.</span>5.36</span>, Plu.2.157d, 704d; <b class="b3">ἀνακλιθῆναι . . συμπόσια συμπόσια</b> in <b class="b2">groups</b>, Ev.Marc.6.39. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">the room in which such parties were given</b>, τοῦ σ. στέγη <span class="bibl">Callix.2</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1793.11</span> (i B.C.); <b class="b3">σαίρειν τὸ σ</b>. Luc.<b class="b2">D Deor</b>.24.1, etc.</span>