συμβόλαιον

English (LSJ)

τό,= σύμβολον,

   A mark, sign, token, Hdt.5.92.ή, Parth. 3.2: pl., symptoms, S.Ph.884.    II in Law, contract, covenant, bond, in acknowledgement of a loan (v. συμβάλλω 1.6), 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. SIG742.50 (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. IG12.16.7, 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. SIG344.24 (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 καθ' 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 SIG494.8 (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. EN1164b13.    III intercourse, ἀνδρὸς πρὸς γυναῖκα Plu.Alex.30, cf. Ant.25.