Banquet guests
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
gentlemen · all · all the company · assemblage · company · guests · onlookers · the company
spoken of as
1 expressionThe banquet guests“company”1 mention
Symposium (Greek)
After Socrates had thus spoken, there was applause from all the company except Aristophanes, who was beginning to remark on the allusion which Socrates’ speech had made to his own;
in the texts
Symposium
The assembled guests at Agathon's symposium
After Socrates had thus spoken, there was applause from all the company except Aristophanes, who was beginning to remark on the allusion which Socrates’ speech had made to his own;
Ah, you would laugh at me because I am drunk? Well, for my part, laugh as you may, I am sure I am speaking the truth. Come, tell me straight out, am I to enter on the terms stated or not? Will you take a cup with me or no?
Symposium
The assembled banqueters who watch, listen, laugh, vote, and answer Socrates' questions.
for the guests, though well fed, as you observe, on seriousness, are perhaps rather ill supplied with laughter.
And so his guests arrived, some having first taken their exercise and their rub-down, others with the addition of a bath.
For in times past, the reason why I got invitations to dinner was that I might stir up laughter among the guests and make them merry;