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τετρώβολον

Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετρώβολον

Sense

  1. a four-obol piece

Examples

  • τετρώβολον τοῦτ’ ἐστί· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 3:5)
  • τῶν δ’ ἀρνῶν τριώβολον καὶ τετρώβολον ἡ τιμή, ὗσ δὲ πίων ἑκατὸν μνᾶσ ἄγων πέντε δραχμῶν καὶ πρόβατον δυεῖν, τάλαντον δὲ σύκων τριῶν ὀβολῶν, μόσχοσ δραχμῶν πέντε καὶ βοῦσ ζύγιμοσ δέκα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8 1:3)
  • Λυσάνδρου γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν ναυαρχίαν ἀποσταλέντοσ ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων, καὶ τετρώβολον ἀντὶ τριωβόλου τῷ ναύτῃ διδόντοσ ἐξ ὧν ἔλαβε παρὰ Κύρου χρημάτων, αὐτὸσ ἤδη γλίσχρωσ χορηγῶν καὶ τὸ τριώβολον ἀπῆρεν ἀργυρολογήσων ἐπὶ Καρίασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 35 4:1)
  • "ἐπὶ τὸ παρὰ σοῦ τετρώβολον Λάκωνα ἥξειν; (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 221)
  • "ἐπὶ τὸ παρὰ σοῦ τετρώβολον Λάκωνα ἥξειν; (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 22 1:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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