συμβολικός

συμβολ-ικός, ή, όν,

• of or belonging to a συμβολή or a σύμβολον, esp.,
• • • 1 symbolical, figurative, riddling, ἀπόκρισις Ph. 1.617, cf. Plu. Isid. 2.354f; τρόπος τῆς διδασκαλίας Iamb. VP 5.20: Comp., Ph. 2.295. Adv., -κῶς φράζειν by signs, Plu. Garr. 2.511b, cf. Ph. 2.242, al., Gal. 13.272: Comp., Luc. Salt. 59; also, by way of correspondence (cf. σύμβολον III.5), τῷ ἐρωτήματι ἕπεται -κῶς ἡ ἀπόκρισις Stoic. 2.62.
    • 2 paid for by subscription, πρόποσις AP 5.133 (Posidipp.); κώθων Antig.Caryst. ap. Ath. 12.547d.
    • 3 conventional, μετάθεσις A.D. Synt. 187.7, cf. Conj. 226.20; τὸ ἐπικείμενον ἑκάστῳ ὄνομα σ. ἐστιν Syrian. in Hermog. 1.106 R. Adv. -κῶς ibid., A.D. Synt. 314.6: Comp., ib. 8.
    • 4 -κά, τά, charge for making out a receipt, POxy. 1650a5 (ii A.D.), etc.
    • 5 -ική, ἡ, mantic art which employs σύμβολα III 2, Gal. 14.615.