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συμπότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συμπότης συμπότου

Structure: συμποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: sumpi/nw

Sense

  1. fellow-drinker, boon-companion

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

  • οὗτοσ μέν γε ‐ λέγω δὲ ἰδών ‐ ξηράνασ τὸν νεκρὸν σύνδειπνον καὶ συμπότην ἐποιήσατο. (Lucian, (no name) 19:3)
  • εἰσὶν δὲ οἳ ὑπολαμβάνουσι τὸν ὀαριστὴν συμπότην καὶ συμπαιστὴν εἶναι τοῦ Διόσ, ἀλλὰ τῷδε ἄν τισ τεκμηρίῳ χρῷτο ὅτι οὐδὲν λέγουσιν οἱ οὕτωσ ὑπολαμβάνοντεσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 41:2)
  • μεθύοντα ἄνδρα πάνυ σφόδρα δέξεσθε συμπότην, ἢ ἀπίωμεν ἀναδήσαντεσ μόνον Ἀγάθωνα, ἐφ’ ᾧπερ ἤλθομεν; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 437:2)
  • ταῦτα οὖν ὁ θεὸσ ἐπισκοπῶν καὶ πάντασ ὁρῶν ὡσ ἐν ἰδίῳ οἴκῳ ὅπωσ ἕκαστοσ εἱστιᾶτο, τοὺσ βελτίστουσ ἀεὶ παῤ αὑτὸν καλεῖ, κἄν τῳ σφόδρα ἀρεσθεὶσ τύχῃ, μένειν αὐτὸν κελεύει καὶ συμπότην καὶ ἑταῖρον ἐποιήσατο, καὶ τοῦ νέκταροσ ἤδη οὗτοσ εὐωχεῖται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 72:1)

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