ὀβολός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[obol]], used both as a weight and coin, at Athens, = ''1''/<span class="bibl">6</span> of a [[δραχμή]], rather more than three halfpence, <span class="title">IG</span>12.140.5, al., freq. in <span class="bibl">Ar., <span class="title">Nu.</span>118</span>, al. ; [[πολὺ]] or <b class="b3">μικρὸν τοῦ ὀ</b>. a thing of which you get much or little for an obol, i. e. [[worthless]] or [[valuable]], <span class="bibl">Antiph.135</span>, <span class="bibl">Eup.185</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>945</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν τοῖν δυοῖν ὀβολοῖν θεωρεῖν</b> 'to sit in the cheap seats', <span class="bibl">D.18.28</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as a weight, Gal.13.295, etc. (<b class="b3">ὀβολός, ὀβελός, ὀβελλός, ὀδελός</b> are different dialect forms of a word for 'spit' or 'nail', nails being used in early times as money, six of them making a handful (δραχμή), cf. <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lys.</span>17</span>.)</span>