symbolus

symbŏlus, i, m. ( symbŏlum, i, n., v. infra), = sumbolos or -on, a sign or mark by which one gives another to understand any thing, a token, symbol (mostly anteand post-class.): per symbolos pecunias capere, Cato ap. Front. Ep. ad Antonin. 1, 2 fin.:

anulum Graeci a digitis appellavere: apud nos prisci ungulum vocabant: postea et Graeci et nostri symbolum,

i. e. a signet, Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 10:

miles hic reliquit symbolum, Expressam in cerā ex anulo suo imaginem,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 53 sq.; 2, 4, 26 sq.; 2, 2, 4; 4, 7, 15; 4, 7, 106; id. Bacch. 2, 3, 29; 2, 3, 51; Just. 2, 12, 1.— Neutr.:

eorum quae pacta sunt symbola,

App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 16, 9:

istic symbolum'st,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 53.—

II.

= symbola, q. v.:

vacantes potibus et dantes symbola,

Vulg. Prov. 23, 21.