Word: symposia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of students assembled in Sever 11 yesterday afternoon to hear Dr. Tarbell's lecture on Socrates. He said that there is no really known figure of Socrates, yet from the symposia of Xenenhon and Plato we are enabled to gain some idea of his face with its rolling lips and peculiar nose. Socrates was born in 464 or 465 B. C. and died in 399. His life was contemporaneous with the age of Pericles and the Peloponnesian war, and it was in this war that he showed his sturdy constitution which enabled him to endure hardships and even...