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ὀβολός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀβολός ὀβολοῦ

Structure: ὀβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and a coin, equaling one sixth of a drachma, a Corcyrean coin

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ λήψῃ πέντε σίκλουσ κατὰ κεφαλήν, κατὰ τὸ δίδραχμον τὸ ἅγιον λήψῃ, εἴκοσιν ὀβολοὺσ τοῦ σίκλου, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 3:47)
  • καὶ μετ’ ὀλίγον αἰτοῦσιν οὐκ ὀβολοὺσ οὐδὲ δραχμὰσ ὀλίγασ, ἀλλὰ πλούτουσ ὅλουσ, ὥστε τίσ ἔμποροσ τοσοῦτον ἀπὸ τοῦ φόρτου ἐμπολήσειεν ἂν ὅσον τούτοισ φιλοσοφία ἐσ χρηματισμὸν συντελεῖ; (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 20:2)
  • καὶ ἐπειδὴ καιρὸσ ἦν, οὗπερ ἕνεκα τὰ πάντα ἐμεμηχάνητο, καὶ χρᾶν τοῖσ δεομένοισ καὶ θεσπίζειν, παρ’ Ἀμφιλόχου τοῦ ἐν Κιλικίᾳ τὸ ἐνδόσιμον λαβών ‐ καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοσ, μετὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸσ τελευτὴν τοῦ Ἀμφιάρεω καὶ τὸν ἐν Θήβαισ ἀφανισμὸν αὐτοῦ ἐκπεσὼν τῆσ οἰκείασ εἰσ τὴν Κιλικίαν ἀφικόμενοσ, οὐ πονήρωσ ἀπήλλαξεν, προθεσπίζων καὶ αὐτὸσ τοῖσ Κίλιξι τὰ μέλλοντα καὶ δύ’ ὀβολοὺσ ἐφ’ ἑκάστῳ χρησμῷ λαμβάνων ‐ ἐκεῖθεν οὖν τὸ ἐνδόσιμον λαβὼν ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ προλέγει πᾶσι τοῖσ ἀφικομένοισ ὡσ μαντεύσεται ὁ θεόσ, ῥητήν τινα ἡμέραν προειπών. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 19:1)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ μισθὸσ αὐτὸσ κατὰ δυ’ ὀβολοὺσ ἢ τέτταρασ, καὶ βαρὺσ αἰτῶν σὺ καὶ ὀχληρὸσ δοκεῖσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 38:1)
  • καὶ εἰσ τοῦτο ἦλθεν ἀναισχυντίασ, ὥστε οὐκ ἔχων, ὅποι τρέψειε τὰ χρήματα, εἰσ ὄψον μὲν δυοῖν παιδίοιν καὶ ἀδελφῇ πέντε ὀβολοὺσ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐλογίζετο, εἰσ ὑποδήματα δὲ καὶ εἰσ γναφεῖον καὶ εἰσ ἱμάτια καὶ εἰσ κουρέωσ κατὰ μῆνα οὐκ ἦν αὐτῷ οὐδὲ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν γεγραμμένα, συλλήβδην δὲ παντὸσ τοῦ χρόνου πλεῖον ἢ τάλαντον ἀργυρίου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 27 1:1)

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