sympotic

English

Etymology

From Latin sympoticus or Ancient Greek συμποτικός (sumpotikós).

Adjective

sympotic (comparative more sympotic, superlative most sympotic)

1. (historical) Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.

   Synonyms: symposiac, sympotical (rare)

   • 2012, Kathryn Topper, The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium, Cambridge University Press, page 7:

     "Athenaeus, whose Deipnosophistae remains one of our most valuable sources of ancient testimonia about the symposium, apparently had some notion of sympotic reclining as a practice connected to luxruy and moral laxity, but the Athenians do not seem to have shared this view."

   • 1996, R. Bracht Branham, Daniel Kinney, Satyrica, University of California Press, footnote 65.1, page 59:

     Possibly a reminder of Alcibiades' late, drunken arrival in Plato's "Symposium," which had become a convention of sympotic literature.

Derived terms

• sympotically

Translations

of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium — see symposiac