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SYNOECIA

Volume 3 · 57 words · 1771 Edition

in Grecian antiquity, a feast celebrated at Athens, in memory of Theseus's having united all the petty communities of Attica into one single commonwealth, the seat whereof was Athens, where all the assemblies were to be held. This feast was dedicated to Minerva; and, according to the scholiast of Thucydides, it was held in the month Metagition.