pledge, security, ἐ. ἀποδεικνύναι and ὑποτιθέναι to offer a pledge, Hdt. 2.136; ἐνέχυρα ἀποδιδόναι And. 1.39; λαμβάνειν ibid., X. An. 7.6.23; ἐνέχυρα βίᾳ φέρειν Antipho 6.11; ἐνέχυρον φέρειν τῶν γειτόνων Hermipp. 29; τὰ ἐ. τινων PHib. 1.46 (iii B.C.), etc.; ἐ. τιθέναι τι make a thing a pledge, put it in pawn, Ar. Pl. 451, cf. Ec. 755; ἐ. κεῖται Pl. Lg. 820e; ἐπʼ ἐνεχύρῳ δοῦναι give on security, D. 49.2; ἐπʼ ἐνεχύροις δανείζειν Ph. 1.634; ἐκ τῶν ἐ. τῶν ὠφληκότων τὴν δίκην from the forfeited pledges, IG 2.814a A 26 (iv B.C.): metaph. in pl., hostages, of wives and children, Aen. Tact. 5.1, cf. Ph. 1.323 (sg.).
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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 1(2).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.).