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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...
- 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...
- fanatically biased in favor of the Gr**** cities; they can do no wrong." Symposiacs (Συμποσιακά); Convivium Septem Sapientium. Dialogue on Love (Ερωτικος);...
- 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'...
- 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...
- Sophocles, fragment 861; Fowler, p. 31; Plutarch, Quaestiones ConvivalesSymposiacs, Moralia 9.14.6 Ovid XIV, 88. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.892;...
- Bacchylides, fr. 45 (from Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes) Plutarch, Symposiacs 3.1; Müller, Orchom. p. 249 Hornblower & Spawforth (2004). The Oxford...
- was a Gr**** physician from Thasos, Macedonia. According to Plutarch's Symposiacs, he proposed two original theories: "Women endure cold better than men...
- 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...