obol

• “(It derives from "obol," an ancient Greek coin, and the "obo" part also echoes the phrase "or best offer.")”

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• “They would knife a man over a copper obol, and would share with him the last of their water.”

  "The Ten Thousand" by Paul Kearney

• “On their arrival Archidemus, the leader of the democracy at that date, who had charge of the two obol fund,48 inflicted a fine on”

  Hellenica

• “Sosias was to pay him a net obol a day, without charge or deduction, for every slave of the thousand, and be53 responsible for keeping up the number perpetually at that figure.”

  Ways and Means

• “Again, out of that number of six thousand — supposing each slave to being in an obol a day clear of all expenses — we get a revenue of sixty talents a year.”

  Ways and Means

• “And let him who, having already received the work in exchange, does not pay the price in the time agreed, pay double the price; and if a year has elapsed, although interest is not to be taken on loans, yet for every drachma which he owes to the contractor let him pay a monthly interest of an obol.”

  Laws

• “Originally intended to be a microcosm of the citizen body, juries by Socrates 'time were manned by elderly, disabled, and poor volunteers who needed the meager three-obol pay.”

  Socrates

• “I dug in the hem of my cloak and found an obol to pay a disheveled water boy to go to Sophocles 'home and request that he meet me back at the theatre on an urgent matter.”

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• “See also Athenian spending; capital; finance; obol; payment; tribute; wealth”

  Simon & Schuster: THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES

• “For the Aeginetan obol and the drachma, see Appendix J, Classical Greek Currency, ©3.”

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