Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.
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Obolus
Synonyms for "obolus" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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4 entriesTranslations
15 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- òbol noun (silver coin)
Czech
1 entries- obolos noun (silver coin)
Dutch
1 entries- obool noun (silver coin)
Finnish
1 entries- oboli noun (silver coin)
French
1 entries- obole noun (silver coin)
German
1 entries- Obolus noun (silver coin)
Greek
1 entries- οβολός noun (silver coin)
Italian
1 entries- obolo noun (silver coin)
Latin
1 entries- obolus noun (silver coin)
Polish
2 entries- obol noun (silver coin)
- obol noun (historical unit of weight)
Portuguese
1 entries- óbolo noun (silver coin)
Russian
1 entries- обо́л noun (silver coin)
Spanish
2 entries- obolus noun (silver coin)
- óbolo noun (silver coin)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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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