συμβόλαιον

συμβόλαιον, τό,= σύμβολον, A. mark, sign, token, Hdt. 5.92.ηʹ, Parth. 3.2: pl., symptoms, S. Ph. 884. II. in Law, contract, covenant, bond, in acknowledgement of a loan (v. συμβάλλω I.6), συμβολαίου λαχεῖν (sc. δίκην) obtain leave to bring an action for enforcing a contract, Lys. 17.3; οὐ τὸ παράπαν σ. ἐξαρνοῦνται μὴ γενέσθαι D. 34.3; συμβολαίου οὐκ ὄντος . . οὔτε ναυτικοῦ οὔτε ἐγγείου no bond with security either on bottomry or on land, Id. 33.3, cf. SIG 742.50 (Ephesus, i B.C.); ἀπώλλυτο καὶ τῷ πατρὶ τὸ σ. his loan would have been lost, D. 49.2; ποιεῖσθαι τὸ σ. Arist. Rh.Al. 1431a17, etc.; of a receipt, BGU 1047 ii 3: mostly in pl., τὰ πρὸς ἀλλήλους σ. Pl. Plt. 295a; σ. ἃ πρὸς ἀλλήλους συμβάλλουσιν Id. R. 425c; ἀνδρὶ . . συμμείξαντι σ. μετρίως Id. Lg. 958c; τὰ Ἀθήναζε καὶ τὰ Ἀθήνηθεν σ. bonds for money lent on freights to and from Athens, D. 32.1; τὰ σ. διαλύειν Arist. Pol. 127a10, cf. IG 12.16.7, 116.18, al.; τὰ σ. καὶ τὰ ἄλλα νομίσματα Phld. Rh. 1.233 S.; δικαστήριον τὸ διαλῦσον τὰ μετέωρα σ. pending suits for enforcing contracts, Supp.Epigr. 1.363.9, al. (Samos, iii B.C.), cf. SIG 344.24 (Teos, iv B.C.); τὰς δίκας εἶναι τῶν συμβολαίων D. 32.1, cf. Arist. Pol. 1275b9; ἀντίδικος ἐκ συμβολαίων the opposite party in such a suit, Is. 5.33; συμβόλαια ἀποστερεῖν fail in payment of money lent on such bond, Isoc. 12.243, D. 32.7; πράξεις συμβολαίων exaction of such moneys, And. 1.88; μικρῶν ἕνεκα σ. for paltry sums so lent, Lys. 12.98: more generally, τὰ τοῦ καθʼ ἡμέραν βίου σ., i.e. the engagements of life, common civil rights, D. 18.210; τὰ περὶ τὴν ἀγορὰν σ. Arist. Pol. 1300b12; ἀναγραφὴ τῶν σ. Thphr. Fr. 97.2; ἐὰν μή τις ἄγῃ πρὸς ἴδιον σ. ἐγκαλῶν τι αὐτῷ SIG 494.8 (Delph., iii B.C.). 2. generally, engagement, E. Ion 411; τὰ ἄλλα σ. other transactions (than wills), Is. 4.12, cf. Isoc. 20.16, Pl. Lg. 913a; of the relation between ward and guardian, ib.922a; τὰ ἑκούσια σ. Id. R. 556b, Arist. EN 1164b13. III. intercourse, ἀνδρὸς πρὸς γυναῖκα Plu. Alex. 30, cf. Ant. 25.