{By companies} (sumposia sumposia). Distribution expressed
by repetition as in Mr 6:7 (duo duo) instead of using ana
or kata. Literally our word _symposium_ and originally a
drinking party, Latin _convivium_, then the party of guests of
any kind without the notion of drinking. So in Plutarch and the
LXX (especially I Macca.). {Upon the green grass} (epi t(9369)
chl(9372)(9369) chort(9369)). Another Markan touch. It was passover time
( Joh 6:4 ) and the afternoon sun shone upon the orderly groups
upon the green spring grass. See on 烘t 14:15|. They may have
been seated like companies at tables, open at one end.
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