συμπόσιον: Difference between revisions

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