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συσσίτιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: συσσίτιον συσσίτιου

Structure: συσσιτι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: mostly in pl

Sense

  1. a common meal, public mess
  2. a messroom, common-hall

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • χρυσέουσ τ’ ἐν μέσῳ συσσιτίῳ κρατῆρασ ἔστησ’. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:13)
  • ἀγνοεῖ δ’ ὅτι οἱ ἐν τῷ Πλάτωνοσ συσσιτίῳ ὀκτὼ καί, εἴκοσι ἦσαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 75)
  • φασὶ δ’ ἐν τῷ συσσιτίῳ ποτὲ τῶν φιλοσόφων πονήσαντοσ στύλου τὸν Μίλωνα ὑποδύοντα σῶσαι ἅπαντασ, ὑποσπάσαι δὲ καὶ ἑαυτόν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 24:14)

Synonyms

  1. a common meal

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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