Another feature of the symposia were skolia, drinking songs of a patriotic or bawdy nature, performed competitively with one symposiast reciting the first part of a song and another expected to improvise the end of it.
Outra característica dos simposios eran os skolia, cancións de bébedos patrióticas ou obscenas, cantada nunha competencia na que un simposiasta recitaba a primeira parte dunha canción e outro esperaba para improvisar o final.