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Συμπόσιον (Symposion)

Συμπόσιον means “Symposion — drinking-party, symposium; the party itself, the guests; groups”.

Ancient Greek word, found once in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.14: … τʼ εἶναι καὶ διʼ ὁμιλίας ἐμμελοῦς ὑπαγαγέσθαι πάνθʼ ὁντινοῦν. δῆλον δʼ ἐκ τῶν συγγραμμάτων κἀκ τοῦ Ξενοφῶντος Συμποσίου. δοκεῖ δὲ καὶ τῆς ἀνδρωδεστάτης Στωικῆς κατάρξαι· ὅθεν καὶ Ἀθήναιος ὁ ἐπιγραμματοποιὸς περὶ αὐτῶν φησὶν οὕτως …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.