Crossword-Solution: SYSSITIA
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMZEA
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eruption
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Sentences with SYSSITIA (5)
Thirdly, he reprobates the prevalence of unnatural loves in Sparta and Crete, which he attributes to the practice of syssitia and gymnastic exercises, and considers to be almost inseparable from them.
After marriage let us proceed to the generation of children, and then to their nurture and education--thus gradually approaching the subject of syssitia.
And so a person might have said of the syssitia, or common meals; but this is refuted by facts, although even now they are not extended to women.
The newly-married couple are not allowed to absent themselves from their respective syssitia, even during their honeymoon; they are to give their whole mind to the procreation of children; their duties to one another at a later period of life are not a matter about which the state is equally solicitous.
Another great institution which Plato borrowed from Sparta (or Crete) is the Syssitia or common meals.