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συμποσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συμποσία

Structure: συμποσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: po/sis

Sense

  1. a drinking together

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μόλισ διεγείρασ ὑπέδειξε τὸν τῆσ συμποσίασ καιρὸν ἤδη παρατρέχοντα, τὸν περὶ τούτων λόγον ποιούμενοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:15)
  • οὗ καὶ γενομένου, παρῄνει εἰσ εὐωχίαν δόντασ ἑαυτούσ, τὸ παρὸν τῆσ συμποσίασ ἐπιπολὺ γεραιρομένουσ εἰσ εὐφροσύνην καταθέσθαι μέροσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:17)
  • ἃσ καὶ ἀνιερώσαντεσ ἐν στήλῃ κατὰ τὸν συμποσίασ τόπον προσευχῆσ καθιδρύσαντεσ, ἀνέλυσαν ἀσινεῖσ, ἐλεύθεροι, ὑπερχαρεῖσ, διά τε γῆσ καὶ θαλάσσησ καὶ ποταμοῦ ἀνασωζόμενοι τῇ τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἐπιταγῇ, ἕκαστοσ εἰσ τὴν ἰδίαν (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 7:20)
  • Διόδωροσ δ’ ὁ Ἀριστοφάνειοσ ὅλον τὸν γάμον περιέγραψε τοπάζων πρώτασ ἡμέρασ εἶναι, καὶ τὸ λῆγον αὐτῶν, ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὸ ἑώλον τῆσ συμποσίασ οὐκ ἐπιλογιζόμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 9 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking together

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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