συμπόσιον, συμποσίου, τό (συμπίνω), a drinking-party, entertainment (Latinconvivium); by metonymy, the party itself, the guests (Plutarch, mor., p. 157 a.; 704d.); plural rows of guests: συμπόσια συμπόσια, Hebraistically for κατά συμπόσια, in parties, by companies ((Buttmann, 30 (27); § 129 a. 3; Winers Grammar, 229 (214); 464 (432)); see πρασιά), Mar_6:39.

συμπόσιον symposion 2x a drinking together; a feast, banquet; a festive company; in NT, pl. συμπόσια , eating party, Mar_6:39 (2x)

συμπόσιον Neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4844

συμπόσιον [page 598] orig. a drinking party, a banquet, e.g. Preisigke 1106 .5 (Ptol.) οἱ συνπόσιον γευόμενοι φιλαγαθίας ἕνεκεν τῆς εἰς ἑαυτούς . From this it is an easy transition to the room in which the party was given (Hesych. : συμπόσιον· τόπος εὐωχίας καὶ πόσεως ) : cf. P Ryl II. 233 .5 (ii/A.D.) τοῦ μεικροῦ συμποσίου , the small dining-room, P Oxy VIII. 1128 .14 (A.D. 173), the lease at a rent of 20 drachmae per annum of a dining-room and the store-chamber within it τὸ συμπόσιον καὶ τὴν ἐντὸς αὐτοῦ κέλλαν , ib , I. 76 .19 (A.D. 179) συμπόσιον καὶ κοιτῶνα , and ib. VIII. 1159 .26 (late iii/A.D.) ἔνεγκον τὸ τυλάριον τ [ὸ ] παλαιὸν τὸ ἐν τῷ συμποσίῳ ἄνω , bring the old cushion that is up in the dining-room (Ed.). In P Flor 1.5 .7 (A.D. 244 5) συμπόσιον ὑπερῷον , συμπόσιον appears to be used as an adj. In Mar_6:39 συμπόσια συμπόσια the word is extended to the companies of diners : the construction can no longer be regarded as Hebraistic, see Proleg. p. 97,

συμπόσιον συμπόσιον, ου, τό, [Etym: συμπίνω] "a drinking-party, symposium", Theogn. , Hdt. , etc. "the room in which such parties were given, drinking-room", Luc.

1. a drinking-party, symposium , (Theognis Elegiacus), etc. 2. the room in which such parties were given, drinking-room , (Lucian) (ML)