σύμβολον: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[σύμβολον]], ου, τό, [[συμβάλλω]] III]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[sign]] or token by [[which]] one infers a [[thing]], Trag.; λαμπάδος τὸ [[σύμβολον]] the token of the [[beacon]]-[[fire]], Aesch.:—often in pl., of marks on the [[body]], Eur.; of omens, Aesch.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[pledge]] or [[pawn]], on [[which]] [[money]] was advanced, Lys.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> in pl. tallies, Lat. tesserae hospitales, i.e. the halves of a [[bone]] or [[coin]], [[which]] two persons broke [[between]] them, [[each]] [[keeping]] one [[piece]], Hdt., Eur., etc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> at [[Athens]], a [[ticket]], [[counter]], Lat. [[tessera]], [[such]] as were given to the dicasts, on presenting [[which]] they [[received]] [[their]] fee, Dem.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> a [[permit]] or [[licence]] to [[reside]], given to aliens, Ar.; a [[ticket]] given by [[each]] [[person]] who joined in a picnic, to be presented for [[payment]] at the end (cf. [[συμβολή]] IV), Ar.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> in Eccl. the [[distinctive]] [[mark]] of Christians, a [[confession]] of [[faith]], a [[creed]], Lat. [[symbolum]].<br /><b class="num">II.</b> in [[legal]] [[phrase]], σύμβολα were covenants [[between]] two states for [[protection]] of [[commerce]], Dem., etc.; σύμβολα ποιεῖσθαι πρὸς πόλιν to make a [[commercial]] [[treaty]] with a [[state]], τὰ ς. συγχέειν to [[violate]] [[such]] [[treaty]], Dem.