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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, See also:root 7ro, cf. See also:Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, See also:cup) , the convivial drinking which took See also:place after a See also:great banquet, accompanied by intellectual or witty conversation, and by See also:music or dancing performed by slaves or attendants. The See also:term has been applied in See also:modern usage, due to See also:Plato's Symposium, to a collection of opinions of different writers on a given subject.

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