symbŏla (sumb-), ae, f., = συμβολή, a contribution of money to a feast, a share of a reckoning, one's scot, shot, = collecta (ante- and post-class.).
I Lit.: sumbolarum collatores, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 13; id. Stich. 3, 1, 28: sumbolam dare, id. ib. 3, 1, 34; so Ter. And. 88: aliquot adulescentuli coimus in Piraeeo In hunc diem, ut de sumbolis essemus, id. Eun. 540; cf. id. ib. 607.—
II Transf., of blows: sine meo sumptu paratae jam sunt scapulis sumbolae, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 22; and of entertaining topics of conversation, Gell. 6, 13, 12.