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Definition of Deipnosophist

Deipnosophist
Deipnosophist Deip*nos"o*phist, n. [Gr. deipnosofisth`s; dei^pnon a meal + sofisth`s a wise man, sophist.] One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.

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- 'dinner') and sophistḗs (σοφιστής 'expert'). It and its English derivative deipnosophists thus describe people who are skilled at dining, particularly the refined...
- (****ographos) i.e. "someone writing about harlots" in the 3rd century CE work Deipnosophists by Athenaeus. The oldest published reference to the word ****...
- (public domain audiobooks) The Deipnosophists, translated by C. D. Yonge, at The Literature Collection The Deipnosophists, translation of books 11–15 with...
- various inflected forms. The most complete description of it in the Deipnosophists is a p****age that reads: πεμμάτιον ἑψόμενον ἐν ἐλαίῳ καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο...
- (12:526) around 200 BC; according to Gulick, C.B. (1941). Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists. Cambridge, M****achusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99380-8...
- creep around deep in caves and are nurtured by serpents. In his work Deipnosophists, Athenaeus wrote that Pythagoras who wrote about the Red Sea mentioned...
- 16–22. Hard 2004, p. 438; Cypria fr. 10 West, pp. 88–91 [= Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 8.334b–d]. Hard 2004, p.244; Hesiod, Theogony 943. Hansen, p. 68; Hard...
- Apollo Gr**** Anthology, 3.6 Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 140 Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.62 Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 97 Strabo, Geography 9. 3. 12 Homeric...
- Thaïs, says Ovid, is the subject of his art. Athenaeus's book The Deipnosophists records a number of remarks attributed to Thaïs. She "said once to a...
- following people: Plutarch of Alexandria, an ancient Gr**** grammarian and deipnosophist Plutarch of Athens (circa 350-430), Gr**** philosopher and Neoplatonist...