obolus

Definitions

1. A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma.
2. A unit of weight, equal to one-sixth of a drachma.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.”

“The Globe editors have⟳ marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: "Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach⟳ to certainty by conjecture, we have⟳ marked the passage with an obolus (†)".”

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