Formerly my sickles would not have sold at an obolus apiece, to-day I am being paid fifty drachmas for every one.
I remember at the feasts of Zeus you had a consuming wish for a little chariot and I bought it for you with the first obolus which I received as a juryman in the Courts.
If then you learn this science, which is false, I shall not pay an obolus of all the debts I have contracted on your account.
If, after such conduct, he proves he has done well, I would not give an obolus for the hide of old men.
I will not return an obolus to anyone who says him instead of her for a kneading-trough.
I would not give more than an obolus for gods who have got to keeping brothels like us mere mortals.
Let us drive away these men of the city,[677] who used to stay at home and chatter round the table in the days when only anobolus was paid, whereas now one is stifled by the crowds at the Pnyx.
And besides that, twenty pieces of boiled meat at half an obolus apiece.
To grant an additionalobolus per head for each seaman’s pay,” replied Lysander.
He is poorly dressed; perhaps he has not an obolus in his pocket for supper; perhaps he will sleep beneath the open sky, and yet, it seems as if Zeus had come down from the heavens in disguise to visit us.
From the Lowest Silurian Sandstone, "Obolus grits," of St. Petersburg.
The lowest rock with organic remains yet discovered is "the Ungulite or Obolus grit" of St. Petersburg, probably coeval with the Llandeilo flags of Wales.
I give you leave to call me a rascal, if he has taken one single obolus from me.
All Naukratis knows the pretty, frivolous sisters, Stephanion, Chloris and Irene, whose garlands have caught many a heart, and whose sweet glances have lured many a bright obolus out of the pockets of our gay young men.
That will hardly work out to one obolus for each drop of blood!
Citizens who applauded Pericles because he gave them an obolus for a vote, and are now willing to see him superseded by any man that will give two oboli instead of one!
An obolus held close to the eye may prevent our seeing the moon and the stars; and thus does the ever-present earth exclude the glories of Heaven.
Nor could he have ever supposed that the interests of the republic would be advanced by men whom the gift of an obolus could induce to vote.
If, therefore you learn for me this unjust cause, I would not pay any one, not even an obolus of these debts, which I owe at present on your account.
I also know that I formerly obeyed you, a lisping child of six years old, and bought you a go-cart at the Diasia, with the first obolus I received from the Heliaea.
He asked me for the obolus with which to pay toll across the river, but, unfortunately, I hadn't a cent with me.
He then asked, rather impatiently, if my friends were so poor when I died that they couldn't afford to put an obolus in the coffin with me.
Formerly my sickles would not have sold at an obolus apiece; to-day I am being paid fifty drachmae for every one.
For this Philocrates skewers the finches together and sells them at the rate of an obolus for seven.
I did myself one day on seeing a kite; but at the moment I was on my knees, and leaning backwards(1) with mouth agape, I bolted an obolus and was forced to carry my bag home empty.
The law will not allow you an obolusof the paternal property, for you are a bastard and not a legitimate child.
All those who could not produce the requiredobolus were obliged to wait one hundred years, at the end of which time Charon reluctantly ferried them over free of charge.
Charon quickly ferried them over the Acheron, on whose bank they saw the wandering shade of Palinurus, who had no obolus to pay his way across, and that of Dido, with a gaping wound in her breast.
The obolus she had ready to pay the oarsman dropped on the ground, and Philip picked it up and returned it to her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obolus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
