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symbola, a contribution to a feast, share, scot, shot

symbŏla (sumb-), ae, f., = συμβολή, 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 (474); id. Stich. 3, 1, 28 (429): sumbolam dare, id. ib. 3, 1, 34 (435); so Ter. And. 88: aliquot adulescentuli coimus in Piraeeo In hunc diem, ut de sumbolis essemus, id. Eun. 540; cf. id. ib. 607.—
  • II Transf., of blows: sine meo sumptu paratae jam sunt scapulis sumbolae, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 22 (125); and of entertaining topics of conversation, Gell. 6, 13, 12.

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