A hundred oboli a month," said Sir Walter, uneasily.
I'll accept the office on a salary of two hundred oboli a month, with Saturdays off.
Citizens who applauded Pericles because he gave them an obolus for a vote, and are now willing to see him superseded by any man that will give two oboli instead of one!
My son says he gets twelveoboli for a conger-eel, in the Athenian markets; and that is a goodly price.
The architects who superintended the building of the temple of Polias, on the other hand, got only 6 oboli per day, and the contractor 5.
The author supposes that the profit upon this speculation would amount to three oboli per day, so that the subscribers would obtain a very high per centage on their shares.
Boeckh states the matter too much as if the three oboli per diem were a real return arising from the scheme, and payable to each shareholder upon each share as he calls it.
Distribution of three oboli per head per day to all the citizens ib.
Distribution of threeoboli per head per day to all the citizens.
Where, however, is the security that the undertaking would produce three oboli a day to each subscriber?
Citizens were paid for attending popular meetings three oboli per day, while the pay of the soldiers was six, and that of the sailors three.
The pay of the commonest day laborer was from three to four oboli per day.
She became very clever in extracting, one by one, the oboli from the belt of some drunken sailor, and in amusing the drinkers with artless songs and obscene words, the meaning of which she did not know.
The siglus is equivalent to seven Attic oboli and a half,[48] and the capithe contains two Attic chœnices.
The obolus is valued by Mr. Hussey at something more than three half-pence; seven oboli and a half would therefore be about a shilling.
Of course, therefore, it is plain that he did not consider three oboli as the half of a drachma (Hist.
But in order that the poor citizens might be enabled to attend, twooboli were given out from the public treasure to each citizen—rich as well as poor, if they chose to receive it—on the occasion of the festival.
And that deficit was never so complete as to stop the disbursement of the diobely, or distribution of two oboli to each citizen on occasion of various religious festivals.
I cannot think that more than two oboli were given to any one citizen at the same festival; at least, not until the distribution became extended, in times posterior to the Thirty; see M.
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