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. 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 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 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 .