What does "sympotic" mean?

Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.

What is a synonym for "sympotic"?

Common synonyms include: symposiac, sympotical.

Sympotic

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Adjective

1
Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium. historical
""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.""

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symposiac sympotical

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""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.""

Etymology

From Latin sympoticus or Ancient Greek συμποτικός (sumpotikós).

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