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triobolus

triobolus · m

a piece of three

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Where it lives

Rudens 4 · 3.37/10k
Poenulus 3 · 2.72/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k

What it meant

trĭōbŏlus — Lewis & Short

trĭōbŏlus, i, m., = triw/bolos.

I As a coin, a piece of three oboli, a half-drachm; used to denote a trifle: negare se debere tibi triobolum, a sixpence, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 26: neque triobolum ullum amicae das, id. Poen. 4, 2, 46; id. Rud. 4, 3, 100; 5, 2, 43; 5, 2, 67; cf.: non ego homo trioboli sum, nisi, etc., id. Poen. 1, 2, 168. —

II As a weight, half a drachm, Cato, R. R. 127, 2; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 9, 46.

Where it came from

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