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SYMPHOSIUS, or SYMPOSIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 291 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SYMPHOSIUS, or SYMPOSIUS  , the name given to the author of a collection of loo riddles of uncertain date, but probably composed in the 4th or 5th century A.D . They have been attributed to Lactantius, and identified with his Symposium, but this view is not generally accepted . The style and versification of the riddles, each of which consists of three
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hexameter lines, are good . They were written to form
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part of the entertainment at the Saturnalia . Text in E . Bahrens, Poetae latini minores, vol. iv.; there is a good French metrical version by E . F . Corpet (1868) ; monograph by W . T . Paul (Berlin, 1854) ; see also Teuffel, His'. of
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Roman Literature, 449 (Eng. trans., 1900) .

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