I.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. 1, 1, 61: “aliquot adulescentuli coimus in Piraeeo In hunc diem, ut de sumbolis essemus,” id. Eun. 3, 4, 2; cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 59.—
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.