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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 291 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SYMPOSIUM (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avµirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink, root 7ro, cf.
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Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup)
  , the convivial drinking which took place after a
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great banquet, accompanied by intellectual or witty conversation, and by
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music or dancing performed by slaves or attendants . The
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term has been applied in
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modern usage, due to
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Plato's Symposium, to a collection of opinions of different writers on a given subject .

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