There must be several thousand drachmae in that wallet--enough to take me to Alexandria.
I repaired to Rome, borrowed three hundred thousand drachmae of Antonia, the univira, and despatched messengers to Caesar and Herrenius Capito telling that the debt so long overlooked had been paid, before my pursuer reached Rome.
Dost thou promise to provide the Herod with three hundred thousand drachmae which shall be paid unto Caesar's treasury?
But it is comforting to know that thou hast no more hope of getting the three hundred thousand drachmae which I owe to Caesar, than I have of paying it!
A year ago to lose a handful of drachmae would have ruined me.
The alabarch had not the three hundred thousand drachmaeto lend--" Marsyas' forehead contracted; was not his work against Saul of Tarsus progressing?
When Drusus died my living died with him, and when I took ship at Puteoli for Palestine I owed three hundred thousand drachmae to Caesar and forty tradesmen barked about my heels.
I have said that I owe three hundred thousand drachmae to Caesar.
Twenty thousand drachmae in loan to Agrippa, and I will serve thee gratis till he redeems me by paying the principal and the talent he owes.
But feeling unhappy owing no man, I immediately borrowed a million drachmae of Thallus, Caesar's freedman, repaid Antonia, and established ourselves magnificently on the Quirinal.
And as thou hopest to return three hundred thousand drachmae to Caesar from my purse, do thou aid me in urging Vitellius to yield it, Capito.
He owes three hundred thousand drachmae to Caesar; he says that thou canst help him pay it; is it so?
For though they had been absent from home three whole months, and received 1,000 drachmae from you for their expenses, they did not receive the oaths from a single city, either on their journey to Macedonia, or on the way back.
Thus we have in our fourth example a set of six mixing-bowls at four drachmae (3s.
It is their duty to give to the poor, and to tell the truth, their pleasure also; and so week by week they give me a few drachmae for my suffering brother.
I offered him what I thought fair," the Jew went on, "and paid him two thousand drachmaeon account; the remainder he begged me to take charge of for the present.
Eleven thousand, three hundred and sixty drachmae were due to me for wages the last time we reckoned: all the profit the master had set down to my credit since I led his caravan.
If the goldsmith could not pay so much for it at once, he might be satisfied to bring away the two thousand drachmae for the messenger, and fetch the remainder at another season.
During the archonship of Euthymenes, you sent us to the Great King on a salary of two drachmae per diem.
His "fifty drachmae lecture" has been much spoken of; that sum had to be paid to hear it.
Take these eight drachmae and go and conclude a truce with the Lacedaemonians for me, my wife and my children; I leave you free, my dear citizens, to send out embassies and to stand gaping in the air.
Take back, take back your viands; for a thousand drachmae I would not give a drop of peace; but who are you, pray?
What is to be done with this trumpet, for which I gave sixty drachmae the other day?
And here is a neighbour who is selling his casks for the country at three drachmae each.
Well then, lend me three drachmae to buy a young pig; I wish to have myself initiated before I die.
He summoned the soldiers together and consoled them; and seeing that they were deprived of all necessaries he promised them two thousand drachmae apiece in place of what they had lost.
Antonius said he was well content with the match; and to show that he was in earnest he demanded of them a contribution of one million drachmae as a portion with his new wife.
The two thousand drachmae have turned the girl's head.
Well then, I had two thousand drachmae for a sword that belonged to Antony.
I beg to do so, but I may as well begin by telling you that in my case it is a question not of drachmae but of Attic talents.
The butcher will not trust us any more, the other creditors press us, and at the end of the month we shall have just ten drachmae left us.
You are still fit to turn the hand-mill, and I dare say I can find a fool to give me a few drachmae for you.
Fourteen hundred drachmae certainly, at the first thought of it, seems a very large sum, but if the material and the trimming required are bought with judgment, after the festival we may very likely sell it back to the man with profit.
He has a residence rent free, and two hundred drachmae a month.
For the first hour she sewed away without looking up, considering, meanwhile, how she could best contrive to support the family till the end of the month on the few drachmae she could dispose of.
Then I gave your mother two drachmae to buy shoes with; and Lyde there,--many is the copper I have slipped into her hand, by twos and threes.
He had never given me more than five drachmae at a time, and he wanted to have everything his own way.
Yet did he after this despair of recovery, and gave orders that each soldier should have fiftydrachmae a-piece, and that his commanders and friends should have great sums of money given them.
He also laid a tribute upon the Jews wheresoever they were, and enjoined every one of them to bring two drachmae every year into the Capitol, as they used to pay the same to the temple at Jerusalem.
And while not spending more than twenty-five minae of the five thousand drachmaecharged for their father's monument, he charged half that amount to himself, and half to them.
And property of more than a thousand drachmae was reported, more than you ever took from any one else.
And I not only counseled the others to do this, but I myself gave two men thirty drachmae each; not that I was worth much, but for an example to the rest.
All the property has been valued at more than a talent, and what I claim, I value at five minae and a thousanddrachmae respectively.
Formerly my sickles would not have sold at an obolus apiece; to-day I am being paid fifty drachmae for every one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drachmae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
