συμβολή συμβολή, ἡ, συμβάλλομαι a coming together, meeting, joining, Xen.: the juncture of two parts, the end, Lat. commissura, Hdt., Plat. in hostile sense, an encounter, engagement, battle, Hdt., Aesch. = συμβόλαιον II, a contract, covenant, Arist.; in Ar. Ach. there is a play on signfs. II and III, encounter and accounts, charge and charges. in pl., συμβολαί were contributions for a common meal, πίνειν ἀπὸ συμβολῶν, like de symbolis esse in Terent., Attic; the entertainment itself, a picnic, Xen.