The corpus record

ἡμι-ωβελιαῖος

emiobeliaios

costing, worth half an obol, as large as a half-obol

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Where it lives

Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

ἡμι-ωβελιαῖος · hēmi-ōbeliaios — LSJ

costing, worth half an obol, as large as a half-obol

costing or worth half an obol, PCair.Zen. 19.5 (iii B.C.):—less correctly written ἡμι-ωβολιαῖος, κρέα Ar. Ra. 554; as large as a half-obol, X. Mem. 1.3.12. (-βελιαῖος shd. prob. be restored.)

In the wild

ἡμιωβελιαῖα · hēmiōbeliaia Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.3.12 (DIORISIS sentence 273)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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