symbola

symbŏla ( sumb- ), ae, f., = sumbolê, a contribution of money to a feast, a share of a reckoning, one's scot, shot, = collecta (ante- and post-class.).

I.

Lit.:

sumbolarum collatores,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 13; id. Stich. 3, 1, 28:

sumbolam dare,

id. ib. 3, 1, 34; so Ter. And. 1, 1, 61:

aliquot adulescentuli coimus in Piraeeo In hunc diem, ut de sumbolis essemus,

id. Eun. 3, 4, 2; cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 59.—

II.

Transf., of blows:

sine meo sumptu paratae jam sunt scapulis sumbolae,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 22;

and of entertaining topics of conversation,

Gell. 6, 13, 12.