sympotical

comparative more sympotical · superlative most sympotical

1. rareSynonym of sympotic.

   Remnants from one of his collections of satirical and sympotical songs in alphabetical order can be found in the Anthologia Palatina (mostly in bk. 11).

   2004, Renzo Tosi, “Diogenianus [2] from Heraclea”, in protext Translations B.V., transl., edited by Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, et al., Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World: Antiquity, volume 4 (Cyr–Epy), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, column 457

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   The most ungrateful material becomes pliable under his [Socrates’s] touch; and the light sympotical mode with which he treats the most difficult points of philosophy and knowledge, rivets the attention of all about him, without a possibility of ennui.

   1825 June, “Horæ Germanicæ. No. XXI. [Christoph Martin] Wieland’s Aristippus.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XVII, number CI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 679, column 1

   The sympotical form is still quite distinctive of British culture, from pubs to clubs. Drink still lubricates politics and business and pleasure for Britons as well as Greeks.

   1981 August 5, Philip Howard, The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 6; quoted in “Plato”, in Henry Root [pseudonym; William Donaldson], editor, Henry Root’s World of Knowledge, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982, →ISBN, page 141, column 1

   The location of the poem among the drinking rather than the satiric epigrams offers a further clue. This suggests that Agathias regarded the epigram as more sympotical than satiric.

   1995, John A[ugustine] Madden, “Texts and Commentary”, in Macedonius Consul: The Epigrams (Spudasmata; 60), Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, →ISBN, page 245

   Synonyms: sympotic