συμβολή

συμβολ-ή, ἡ,

A coming together, meeting, joining,

συμβολὰς τριῶν κελεύθων A.Fr.173

,cf.X.HG7.1.29; confluence of two rivers, IG9(2).205.12 (Melitea, iii B.C.), D.S.17.97, Arr.An.6.4.4, IG14.352 i 17, ii 49 ([place name] Halaesa), etc.;

συμβολὴ τῶν ὀπτικῶν νεύρων Gal.UP10.13

; putting together,

τῶν κώλων Sor.1.103

(prob.); τῶν χειλῶν συμβολαί, opp. τῆς γλώσσης προσβολαί, of the pronunciation of labial and lingual letters, Arist.PA660a6; σ. φωνηέντων meeting of vowels in compound words, D.H.Dem.40, cf. Phld.Po.Herc.994.28; εἰς φωνήεντα τελευτᾶν ταῖς ς. Arist.Rh.Al.1434b35.

2 in concrete sense, joint, juncture, [τοῦ ζωστῆρος] Hdt.4.10; [τῶν ἀξόνων] X.Eq.10.10; of an alchemical apparatus, Zos.Alch.p.139 B.; τῶν ὀστέων, of the joints, Hp.Art.79, cf. Pl.Phd.98d, Gal.2.683, UP3.16, 16.10;

πρὸς τοῦ ἰσχίου Hp.Epid.5.7

; suture of the skull, Poll.2.36.

3 twisting, plaiting,

τοπείων IG22.1672.311

;

νεύρων Arist. Aud.802b16

.

4 point of contact, Arched.Stoic.3.263; bond of union,

τοῦ χωρίου καὶ τῆς γνώμης Aret.SD1.6

.

II in hostile sense, encounter, engagement,

συμβολῆς γενομένης Hdt.1.74

, cf. 7.210;

συμβολὴν ποιέεσθαι Id.6.110

; τῇ σ. νικῆσαι, ἑσσωθῆναι, Id.4.159, 1.66; of ships, A.Pers.350; ἀλεκτρυόνων ς. Hdn.3.10.3 (pl.);

τάλας ἐγὼ ξυμβολῆς βαρείας Ar.Ach.1210

.

III = σύμβολον 11.3, IG5(2).419.12 ([place name] Phigaleia), etc.; τῶν ἄλλοθι (sc. συμβολαίων) ἀπὸ ξυμβολῶν κατὰ τὰς οὔσας ξυμβολὰς πρὸς Φασηλίτας τὰς δίκας εἶναι ib.12.16.13, cf. 60.9, al.; δικάζεσθαι κὰ (i.e. κατὰ) τᾶς συμβολᾶς ib.9 (1).333.15 ([dialect] Locr., v B.C.);

συνθῆκαι καὶ σ. πρός τινας Arist.Rh. 1360a15

.

2 marriage-contract, Vett.Val.40.10 (pl.).

IV pl., contributions made to provide a common meal, συμβολὰς πράττεσθαι make people pay their share of the reckoning, Ar.Ach.1211, Eub.72; τὰς ξ. κατατιθέναι, καταβάλλειν, pay one's shot, Antiph.26.8, Diod. Com.2.13; σ. φέρειν, εἰσφέρειν, Alex.143, Hegesand.31 (sg.);

πίνειν ἀπὸ συμβολῶν Alex.97

, cf. Diph.43.28.

b the meal or entertain ment itself, picnic, X.Smp.1.16.

c [τὸν δακτύλιον] εἰς συμβολὰς ὑπόθημ' ἔδωκε as a pledge into the poll (in dicing), Men.Epit.287; συμβολὰς or συμβολὴν καταθεῖναι, Luc.Herm.81, DMeretr.7.1.

2 contribution, subscription to the expenses of a festival, etc., IG12(7).22.28 (Arcesine, iii B.C.), PTeb.112.26 (ii B.C.), etc.; διὰ τὸ μὴ πεσεῖν πάσας τὰς ς. because the subscriptions had not all been paid, PCair.Zen.341 (a).19 (iii B.C.), cf. PPetr.3p.325 (iii B.C.), UPZ98.139 (ii B.C.): metaph.,

συμβολὰς διδόναι τῇ πολιτείᾳ Plu.Agis 9

, cf.Arat.11;

εἰς τὸν πόλεμον σ. παρασχέσθαι Id.Comp.Dion.Brut.1

.

V metaph., cooperation, dub. in Phld.D.1.22.