For Lysander, being sent from Lacedaemon with a commission to be admiral of their fleet, and being furnished by Cyrus with a great sum of money, gave every sailor four obols a day, whereas before they had but three.
At the entrance to a showman's travelling booth, a blind Christian slave, for four obols a day, was pumping up the water which produced this extraordinary harmony.
Do you take me for a porneion-girl, who puts herself on her back for three obols without looking to see who is possessing her?
On his arrival, by means of the money paid by Cyrus, he raised the pay of his sailors from three obols a day to four.
At the entrance to a showman's travelling booth, a blind slave, for four obols a day, was pumping up the water which produced this extraordinary harmony.
So I buy some meat for five obols and have it cooked.
The money-changers had formerly been accustomed to give 210 obols (called Pholes) for a single gold stater.
Justinian and Theodora, for their own private gain, ordered that only 180 obols should be given for the stater, and by this means deprived the public of a sixth part of each piece of gold.
The rate rose from one to two obols and then to three obols (Aristoph.
Nearly 122 pounds; and thirty minae a month to each ship (the crew of each ship being taken at two hundred) = three obols a day to each man.
And Rutilius used to buy fish from his own slaves who worked as fishermen for three obols for a pound of fish; especially when he could get what is called the Thurian; and that is a part of the sea-dog which goes by that name.
Then add the wine, of which I bought three gallons When you were drunk, ten obols for each gallon.
Here's a dish of them To which you're welcome; this I bought myself, And paid eight obols for it in the market.
For this reason we still call small coins obols, and we call six obols a drachma, meaning that this is the number of them which can be grasped by the hand.
Demetrius, however, when himself a legislator, appointed that each of these women should receive a drachma instead of three obols a day.
Demetrius further states that he carried a bill before the Assembly by which this man's mother and sister were provided with a pension of three obols daily at the public expense.
In the end, Xanthus buys Esop for sixty obols (about 7s.
Vespasian, consequently, although the most affable of men, became indignant and gave orders that the six obols per man should be levied, and thought seriously about taking vengeance upon them.
Hence the Alexandrians [both for the reasons mentioned and because most of the royal possessions had been sold were vexed and] threw out various derogatory remarks about him, one of them being: "You want six obols more.
Five obols went to the drachma, and a hundred drachmas to the mina.
A seaman was paid four obols a day, the rate having been increased by the liberality of Cyrus from three to four.
On the other hand, it would be less than the pay of a day labourer, which was probably about 4 obolsor 6d.
But, of course, we must use only consecrated corn, that’s two obols more.
The yield of corn in this district is so abundant that wheat is often sold at four obols a Sicilian medimnus, barley at two, or a metretes of wine for an equal measure of barley.
This is that Demos may rule over all the Greeks; for the oracles predict that, if he is patient, he must one day sit as judge in Arcadia at five obols per day.
That is, the three obols paid for attendance as a Heliast at the High Court.
Each Heliast was paid three obols for each day's attendance in court.
Then the official designated for the purpose takes away the jurors' staves, in return for which each one as he records his vote receives a brass voucher marked with the numeral 3 (because he gets three obols when he gives it up).
The nine Archons receive four obols apiece for maintenance, and also keep a herald and a flute-player; and the Archon for Salamis receives a drachma a day.
The guardians receive from the state a drachma apiece for their keep, and the youths four obols apiece.
First the members of the Assembly receive a drachma for the ordinary meetings, and nine obols for the 'sovereign' meeting.
All magistrates should serve without remuneration for the period of the war, except the nine Archons and the Prytanes for the time being, who should each receive three obols a day.
After the three obols had been decreed, a majority more overwhelming than ever was ensured in the assembly to the poorer class.
Chremes (at lines 381-2) says he had lost his three obols by being late for the assembly.
Money wages need hardly be considered, although everybody expects a fewobols at Christmas and Easter.
The haughtiest cavalier feels it his duty to scatter copper obols when he goes among the poor, though doubtless he tells his squire to fling the coins merely to "satisfy this hungry rabble.
The common sailors, in time of peace, received four obols a day.
The pay of the dicast and the ecclesiast was, as we have just seen, first one, then three obols; and the money paid to the infirm was never less than one, nor more than two obols a day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obols" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
