The corpus record — Latin

obolus

obolus · m

an obol, a small Greek coin, the sixth part of a drachm

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 83 · 2.09/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ŏbŏlus — Lewis & Short

ŏbŏlus, i, m., = o)bolo/s.

I Lit., an obol, a small Greek coin, the sixth part of a drachm, equivalent to three and a half cents Federal currency, Vitr. 3, 1: siclus viginti obolos habet, Vulg. Exod. 30, 13.—

II Transf., as a weight, the sixth part of a drachm Fann. de Ponder. et Mens. 37; cf. Cels. 5, 17; Plin. 21, 34, 109, § 185; 25, 12, 91, § 142: trium obolorum pondere, id. 21, 25, 96, § 169.

In the wild

obolis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.8.p1
obolis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.12.p2
obolis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.13.p1
obolis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.5.p7
obolis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p15
obolorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.21.p2

6 of 88 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.