- συμπόσιον
- συμπόσιον, ου, τό (συμπίνω; Theognis et al.; lit. ‘drinking-party’, which is better understood as ‘banquet’, at which sparkling conversation was highly prized, as exemplified in the Platonic dialogues and the collection of topics in Athenaeus; sim. J 13–17 and numerous discourses in Lk would be understood by Greco-Romans in the context of a συμπόσιον; for a misconception cp. Lk 7:34 al.; cp. the cognate verb συμπίνω Ac 10:41; on the Hellenic perspective s. RHalbertsma, Wine in Classical Antiquity: Minerva 7, ’96, esp. 15–17, citing Poseidippos, Anth. Pal. 5, 183; Athen. 2, 37; for the term συμπόσιον in the sense of ‘banquet’ s. also Philo, Op. M. 78; Jos., Ant. 8, 137; 12, 231; since X. et al. also = hall where a banquet is held; also pap, LXX in both mngs.) a party of people eating together, party, group (so Plut., Mor. 157d; 704d) repeated, in a distributive sense (B-D-F §493, 2; Mlt. 97): συμπόσια συμπόσια in parties Mk 6:39 (s. πρασιά).—DELG s.v. πίνω p. 905. M-M.
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