For Tubero used to buy birds at a drachma a-piece from the men who lived on his own farms.
He gave five drachmas for every wolf that was killed, and one drachma for every wolf's whelp; and we are told by Demetrius of Phalerum that the first of these sums was the price of an ox, and the second that of a sheep.
He who is detected in selling adulterated goods shall be deprived of them, and shall receive a stripe for every drachma of their value.
When a magistrate dies before his term of office has expired, another shall be elected in his place; and, if the guardian of an orphan dies, the relations shall appoint another within ten days, or be fined a drachma a day for neglect.
The same Demetrius, when he was legislating himself, decreed each of these women a drachma per diem.
The priest assures Phormion that the entrails of the victim foretokened every possible favor in future athletic contests--and this, and his insinuating smile, win him a silver drachma to supplement his share of the lamb.
The government's hard drachma policy and public sector wage restraint are largely responsible for the downward trend in inflation, now at the lowest level in 22 years.
In respect to land and agriculture Solon proclaimed a public reward of five drachmas for every wolf brought in, and one drachma for every wolf's cub; the extent of wild land has at all times been considerable in Attica.
He lowered the standard of the drachma in a proportion of something more than 25 per cent.
These Thracian peltasts, thirteen hundred in number, had been hired at a drachma per day each man, to go with Demosthenês to Syracuse, but had not reached Athens in time.
When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.
Or what woman, if she had ten drachma{A drachmacoin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.
If they could be split in two, I would take them at a drachma per hundred to use as vine-props.
Lamachus wants to keep the Feast of Cups,[253] and I come by his order to bid you onedrachma for some thrushes and three more for a Copaic eel.
The winter following, Tissaphernes put Iasus in a state of defence, and passing on to Miletus distributed a month's pay to all the ships as he had promised at Lacedaemon, at the rate of an Attic drachma a day for each man.
Since they had come too late, the Athenians determined to send them back to Thrace, whence they had come; to keep them for the Decelean war appearing too expensive, as the pay of each man was a drachma a day.
Give it for half a drachma a goblet, and we will taste it," said one of the merchants.
The children who were crying bitterly in the boat were sold at a drachma per head for a twelvemonth, and that woman who was wading in the water to her waist and weeping was their mother.
The worthy Dagon will not only forgive thee the rent, but will pay thee a drachma a year for each boy.
Thou wouldst sell thy country for a drachma hadst thou the chance, leprous cur that thou art!
The ordinary Athenian dicast is supposed to have subsisted largely upon his pay of three obols or a half-drachma per diem.
Seven hundred drachma a month I pay him, and he says it's not enough.
The Government proposed to authorize an issue of half a million drachma to a duly constituted syndicate.
I would have given a thousand drachma to have got to the train," said the girl moodily.
Fifteen hundred drachma a month for that, and he says he lose money on the job.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drachma" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
