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    The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work (Ancient Greek: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts")...
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  • are lost. Of his works, only the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives. The Deipnosophistae, which means 'dinner-table philosophers', survives...
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  • take part in the banquet described by Athenaeus of Naucratis in the Deipnosophistae. Some of them can be probably identified with great names of the past...
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    own name and origin. According to Mnaseas, cited by Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae, Glaucus named the island of Syme after his wife, when they settled...
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    playwright. The phrase appears in the lost play Arrephoros, as quoted in Deipnosophistae. Plutarch reports that these words were said in Greek: Ἑλληνιστὶ πρὸς...
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    Cassell. p. 132. ISBN 0-304-70423-7. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 13.12 - Greek Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 13.12 - English Pausanias, Description of Greece...
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    Ephialtes". M.A., McGill University (Canada), 2011. 52. (Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIII.590) Mossé, Claude. Athens in Decline: 404-86 B.C. Routledge...
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    Chronography, 79 Harpokration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators, Th33 Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, § 11.5 Acts 16:14. [2][permanent dead link] – Biography at the website...
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    III, 3.3, p. 174. Pausanias, 9.29.5 Pausanias, 8.31.4 Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 8.334e Apollodorus, 3.12.3. Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Homer, Iliad 6.21–23...
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    it is not lawful for a sophist to be sold in Greece. — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae XIV.67 An influential and large Greek population was present in the...
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