The man knew exactly what to do, and the supper was a great surprise to the guests, for a banquet in that hall was never served at an expense of less than fifty thousand drachmas [nearly nine thousand dollars].
At last the Empire was knocked down to him for six thousand two hundred and fifty drachmas [about one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars] to each praetorian.
You, my countrymen; Whom I would pay a thousand drachmas down, To let me give up office and leave town.
Caesar made a view and lustration of his army within his trenches, and distributed only a little corn and but five drachmas to each soldier for the sacrifice they were to make.
At length they agreed to lay down one hundred and twenty-five thousand drachmas apiece, and then all of them to canvass fairly and honestly, on condition, that if any one was found to make use of bribery, he should forfeit the money.
He likewise forbade them to speak evil of the living in the temples, the courts of justice, the public offices, or at the games, or else to pay three drachmas to the person, and two to the public.
We offered five drachmas extra if he did it; and he tried hard to get them then, whipping his horses unmercifully.
On being told either to find horses or drive back to Chalkis, he became surly, and demanded, besides the liberal sum of twenty drachmas which we had agreed to pay at this point, twenty drachmas more for driving us back.
But the exploit subsequently became so common that a fixed price of twelve drachmas was allowed workmen for removing the earth.
On the other side, the tribunes of the people met his threats by solemnly protesting they would fine him fifty thousand drachmas of silver, if he persisted in obstructing the people from giving their suffrages for the law.
He permitted only oil to be exported, and those that exported any other fruit, the archon was solemnly to curse, or else pay an hundred drachmas (a drachma was about twenty cents.
The right of anchorage produced a revenue of a million of drachmas a year.
Cæsar left to each citizen three hundred sesterces; Plutarch gives seventy-five drachmas as the Greek equivalent.
They will go for twenty-five drachmas apiece, and please do not think that I speak rashly on the subject.
Perhaps a few drachmas more may be got for those of the whitest skins.
Herhor; and this is what an investigation discovered: During the nineteenth dynasty there were in the district about one hundred officials, and these received each one thousand drachmas yearly salary.
Has it ever been heard," thought he, "that the heir of a pharaoh ran after women like a poor scribe who cannot borrow ten drachmas anywhere?
To-day in that same district, though the people have decreased, there are more than two hundred officials who receive two thousand five hundred drachmas yearly.
Aristotle it was one and a half drachmas for the [Greek: kyria ekklesia] and one drachma for other meetings.
There was a fishmonger not long ago, Who asked four whole drachmas for his tench.
But they forget that, as Duris also relates, Philip the father of Alexander, when he had a golden cup which was fifty drachmas in weight, always took it to bed with him, and always slept with it at his head.
And Archedicus, in his Treasure, introduces a cook speaking of some fish which he has been buying in the following terms-- Then for three drachmas I a grayling bought.
And upon his promise that he would go, and his saying that he should not want much money for his journey, because he would live moderately, and that ten thousand drachmas would be sufficient, he was pleased with his son's prudence.
He who sells anything of greater value than fifty drachmas shall abide in the city for ten days, and let his whereabouts be known to the buyer, in case of any reclamation.
At the instance of Alkibiades, his son Lysimachus was also presented with a hundred silver mines, and as many acres of planted land, and in addition to this, an allowance of four drachmas a day.
He forbade it likewise with respect to the living, either in a temple or before judges or archons, or at any public festival--on pain of a forfeit of three drachmas to the person aggrieved, and two more to the public treasury.
All persons in the state whose annual income amounted to less than two hundred medimni or drachmas were placed in the fourth class, and they must have constituted the large majority of the community.
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.
Today in that same district, though the people have decreased, there are more than two hundred officials who receive two thousand five hundred drachmas yearly.
Here, however, the electors are required to pay fifty drachmas of direct taxes to the general government in order to be entitled to vote.
Then, when the big company's formed, he takes up shares in that, and is voted a salary of twenty thousand drachmas a year as financial adviser.
Five founder's shares of a thousand drachmas each in the preliminary company, convertible into preferred stock in the big concern and ten thousand drachmas a year salary.
The two commanders agreed that the prisoners should be exchanged man for man, and that if either party had more than the other, he should redeem for two hundred and fifty drachmas per man.
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 also forbade people to speak evil of the living in temples, courts of justice, public buildings, or during the national games; and imposed a fine of three drachmas to the person offended, and two to the state.
The sum total of this in our Greek money is eighty-three thousand five hundred and eighty-three drachmas and two obols.
These two hundred drachmas will in a very little while rise to four hundred; which, of course, will amount in time to four thousand.
When his father died he left him to the value of a hundred drachmas in Persian money.
The probable interpretation is that the ten drachmas were the ten coins worn as a frontlet by the women of the east.
And Dannaï obtained him from Khataï for the price of twenty drachmas of silver.
And Nitocris obtained her for the price of sixteendrachmas of silver … for Takhu her son, on account of his marriage.
The fee for initiation was a minimum sum of fifteen drachmas (a drachma being of the value of 7 3/4d.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drachmas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
