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  • Note: 'Symp' is not a nickname, 'Gilligan' will be ignored.

    A Constant consistency... reynardo 2001

  • In fact, I think that Symp is one of the least likely on this board to give anyone a break – he sounds like crusading hard-ass to me.

    Follow-Up: CHS Attackers' Ringleader at cvillenews.com 2004

  • No, I’m sure Symp is probably a liberal, granola-eating, career protester that is pissed because some cop stepped on his leather sandals and confiscated his pipe.

    Alb. Deputy Accused of Sketchiness at cvillenews.com 2003

  • View video clips or listen to podcast of OCLC Symp ...

    July 2007 2007

  • It is a songbook prepared for YAF's 1971 convention, and in its mimeographed pages you will find a lyric poking fun at "Adlai [Stevenson] the bald-headed Com-Symp," and another moaning that, in the State Department, "everyone's a Commie slave."

    Charlie Black's Cronies 2008

  • See “Symp.” vi. 7; and for similar far-fetched etymologies, Plat.

    Memorabilia 2007

  • Cf. “Symp.” iv. 26 [isos de kai ... entimoteron estin].

    Memorabilia 2007

  • (Symp.), — he describes as coming to Athens, not after the attempt of Cylon, but ten years before the Persian war.

    Laws 2006

  • Even the fragments of his words when ‘repeated at second-hand’ (Symp.) have in all ages ravished the hearts of men, who have seen reflected in them their own higher nature.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Socrates: I will proceed; and, although no lover likes to speak with one who has no feeling of love in him (compare Symp.), I will make an effort, and tell you what I meant: My love, Alcibiades, which I hardly like to confess, would long ago have passed away, as I flatter myself, if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that you ought to pass life in the enjoyment of them.

    The First Alcibiades 2006

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