SYMPOSIUM (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink, root 7ro, cf. Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup)

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SYMPOSIUM (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink, root 7ro, cf. Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup) , the convivial drinking which took

place

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

after a

great

GREAT

banquet, accompanied by intellectual or witty conversation, and by

music

MUSIC

or dancing performed by slaves or attendants. The

term

TERM

has been applied in

modern

MODERN

usage, due to

Plato

PLATO

Symposium

SYMPOSIUM (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avµirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink,
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
7ro, cf. Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup)

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