symbolus

• v. infra), = σύμβολος or -ον, 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 (55) sq.; 2, 4, 26 (719) sq.; 2, 2, 4 (597); 4, 7, 15 (1117); 4, 7, 106 (1208); id. Bacch. 2, 3, 29 (263); 2, 3, 51 (285); Just. 2, 12, 1.—Neutr.: eorum quae pacta sunt symbola, Ap. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 16, 9: istic symbolum'st, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 53 (646).—
• II = symbola, q. v.: vacantes potibus et dantes symbola, Vulg. Prov. 23, 21.

➳ d. les mss de Pl. qqf. symbulus, sumbolus, simbolus ; v. symbolum

➳ || noter que souvent il est impossible de distinguer le n. symbolum du m. symbolus.