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

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