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Definition of Symposiac

Symposiac
Symposiac Sym*po"si*ac, a. [L. symposiacus, Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings. Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance. --Arbuthnot.
Symposiac
Symposiac Sym*po"si*ac, n. A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.

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- (from Tzetzes, On Hesiod's Works & Days 23) Smith, s.v. Musae; Plutarch, Symposiacs 9.14.4. Plutarch, Of the Names of Rivers and Mountains, and Of Such Things...
- Plutarch posed the question as a philosophical matter in his essay "The Symposiacs", written in the 1st century CE. The question represents an ancient folk...
- Sophocles, fragment 861; Fowler, p. 31; Plutarch, Quaestiones ConvivalesSymposiacs, Moralia 9.14.6 Ovid XIV, 88. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.892;...
- own reflection portended his own death. Plutarch refers to this in his Symposiacs as numbing the nerves causing a heaviness in the limbs. He refers to Sophocles'...
- Mediterranean 2003:263-76, summarizes the present scholarship on the dating. Symposiacs, Book IX, questions II & III On-line text Archived 13 October 2008 at...
- Plutarch. On the Pythian Oracle. B94. Plutarch. On Exile. B95-96. Plutarch. Symposiacs. B97. Plutarch. An seni respublica gerenda sit. B98. Plutarch. On the...
- communist utopias in Gr**** thought, p. 135. Oxford University Press Plutarch, Symposiacs, 2.1; A****ius, Florida, 22; Julian, Orations, 6.201b Diogenes Laërtius...
- Bacchylides, fr. 45 (from Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes) Plutarch, Symposiacs 3.1; Müller, Orchom. p. 249 Hornblower & Spawforth (2004). The Oxford...
- (2): 175–204. doi:10.1007/s00407-015-0165-9. ISSN 1432-0657. Plutarch. Symposiacs. Book VIII, Question 2. Archived from the original on 2008-08-15. Euclid...
- figures inside of ancient Gr**** religion, such as Hades. In Plutarch's symposiacs, it is stated that there are those who believe Adonis to be the same as...