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τριώβολον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριώβολον τριώβολου

Structure: τριωβολ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: o)bolo/s

Sense

  1. a three-obol-piece, a half-drachma, the pay of the dicasts
  2. the pay of the marine soldiery

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

  • ὁπόσοι γραφὰσ ἀπήνεγκαν, ἥκειν εἰσ Ἄρειον πάγον, ἔνθα ἡ Δίκη ἀποκληρώσει τὰ δικαστήρια καὶ αὐτὴ παρέσται τοῖσ δικάζουσιν οἱ δικασταὶ ἐξ ἁπάντων Ἀθηναίων ὁ μισθὸσ τριώβολον ἑκάστησ δίκησ· (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 12:3)
  • ἠπείλησε γὰρ ὁ θεσμοθέτησ, ὃσ ἂν μὴ πρῲ πάνυ τοῦ κνέφουσ ἥκῃ κεκονιμένοσ, στέργων σκοροδάλμῃ βλέπων ὑπότριμμα, μὴ δώσειν τὸ τριώβολον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Exodus, strophe2)
  • νυνὶ δὲ τριώβολον ζητοῦσι λαβεῖν, ὅταν πράττωσί τι κοινὸν ὥσ‐ περ πηλοφοροῦντεσ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Exodus, antistrophe4)
  • τὸ τριώβολον δῆτ’ ἔλαβεσ; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 1:26)
  • οὐκ ἂν ἔτι δοίην τῶν θεῶν τριώβολον, εἰ πορνοβοσκοῦσ’ ὥσπερ ἡμεῖσ οἱ βροτοί. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene27)

Related

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

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