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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

  • τὴν δὲ ἐπιμέλειαν ἔχει τοῦ συσσιτίου γυνὴ τρεῖσ ἢ τέτταρασ τῶν δημοτικῶν προσειληφυῖα πρὸσ τὰσ ὑπηρεσίασ, ἑκάστῳ δ’ αὐτῶν ἀκολουθοῦσι δύο θεράποντεσ ξυλοφόροι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 224)
  • ὃσ οὕτω ψυχρῶσ συνέταξε τὴν ἑταιρίαν τοῦ βασιλέωσ ὥστε οὐκ ἐξῆν τοῦ συσσιτίου μετασχεῖν εἰ μή τισ ἐπίσταιτο γεωμετρεῖν ἢ φιλοσοφεῖν, ὅθεν, Φιλίππου τὴν ἀρχὴν παραλαβόντοσ, Παρμενίων αὐτὸν ἐν ’ Ὠρεῷ λαβὼν ἀπέκτεινεν, ὥσ φησι Καρύστιοσ ἐν Ἱστορικοῖσ Ὑπομνήμασι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 119 1:1)
  • δοκιμάζεσθαι δὲ τὸν βουλόμενον τοῦ συσσιτίου μετασχεῖν οὕτω φασί. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 12 5:1)
  • συμβάλλουσι δ’ εἰσ μάχην καὶ οἱ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ συσσιτίου πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, καὶ πρὸσ ἕτερα συσσίτια· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 4 29:7)

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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