he would have asked twenty drachmas for a cloak

From LSJ

εἰ ἀποκρυπτόντων τῶν Μήδων τὸν ἥλιον ὑπὸ σκιῇ ἔσοιτο πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἡ μάχη καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἡλίῳ → if the Medes hid the sun, the battle would be to them in the shade and not in the sun

Source

English > Greek (Woodhouse Quotes)

δραχμὰς ἂν ἤτησ' εἴκοσιν εἰς ἱμάτιον

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