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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.

Meaning of Symposiac from wikipedia

- 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...
- (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...
- Sophocles, fragment 861; Fowler, p. 31; Plutarch, Quaestiones ConvivalesSymposiacs, Moralia 9.14.6 Ovid XIV, 88. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.892;...
- 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...
- 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'...
- was a Gr**** physician from Thasos, Macedonia. According to Plutarch's Symposiacs, he proposed two original theories: "Women endure cold better than men...
- Plutarch. On the Pythian Oracle. B94. Plutarch. On Exile. B95-96. Plutarch. Symposiacs. B97. Plutarch. An seni respublica gerenda sit. B98. Plutarch. On the...
- Memorable Deeds and Sayings, i. 3, 2, see EXEMPLUM 3. [Par.] Plutarch. Symposiacs, iv, 6. Tacitus, Histories 5.4 Julian, Letter XX to Theodorus, translated...
- Retrieved 19 March 2017. Plutarch, Symposiacs, I.6 C****ius Dio, Roman History Book 57, English translation Plutarch, Symposiacs Book 1, English translation Suetonius...
- was the contemporary of the writer Plutarch, whom he introduces in his Symposiacs. This Philo was of the opinion that the diseases elephantiasis and rabies...