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συμποτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: συμποτικός συμποτική συμποτικόν

Structure: συμποτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from sumpo/ths

Sense

  1. of or for a sumpo/sion, convivial, jolly, suited for drinking songs, a jolly fellow

Examples

  • τοῦ γοῦν Ξενοκράτουσ ἐν Ἀκαδημείᾳ καὶ πάλιν Ἀριστοτέλουσ συμποτικοί τινεσ ἦσαν νόμοι, τὰ δ’ ἐν Σπάρτῃ φιδίτια καὶ τὰ παρὰ τοῖσ Κρησὶν ἀνδρεῖα μετὰ πάσησ ἐπιμελείασ αἱ πόλεισ συνῆγον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 2 2:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ πλούσιοι μόνον ὁμοῦ καὶ λόγιοι καὶ ἰσχυροὶ καὶ συμποτικοὶ καὶ ἡδεῖσ εἶναι καὶ φίλοι βασιλέων καὶ πόλεων ἄρχοντεσ ἀξιοῦσιν, ἀλλ’ εἰ μὴ καὶ κύνασ ἕξουσι πρωτεύοντασ ἀρετῇ καὶ ἵππουσ καὶ ὄρτυγασ καὶ ἀλεκτρυόνασ, ἀθυμοῦσι. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 12 1:1)
  • ἐν πᾶσι καὶ πάντων ἐπιδραττομένουσ ἀπλήστωσ οὐ γὰρ πλούσιοι μόνον ὁμοῦ καὶ λόγιοι καὶ ἰσχυροὶ καὶ συμποτικοὶ καὶ ἡδεῖσ εἶναι καὶ φίλοι βασιλέων καὶ πόλεων ἄρχοντεσ ἀξιοῦσιν, ἀλλ’ εἰ μὴ καὶ κύνασ ἕξουσι πρωτεύοντασ ἀρετῇ καὶ ἵππουσ καὶ ὄρτυγασ καὶ ἀλεκτρυόνασ ἀθυμοῦσι. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 12 3:2)

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

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