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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "'<b>οῦ (ὁ)<\/b> obole :<br\/><b>      1<\/b> <i>monnaie athénienne valant 1\/6 de la drachme attique<\/i> (15 centimes) <i>et d’une masse de 72 centigrammes,<\/i> ATT. ;<br\/><b>      2<\/b> mesure athénienne équivalente à 1\/6 d’un chénice, ATT.<p style='color:darkgreen'>➳ <i>Dans les inscr. att. ὀϐολός est la forme régulière ;<\/i> ὀϐελός <i>seul. une fois,<\/i> CIA. <i>4, 3, c, 5 (av. 444 av. J.C.) ; les dérivés conservent l’ο lorsque leur thème se termine en<\/i> λο : τριώϐολον, πεντώϐολον, δεκώϐολον ; <i>sinon ils ont l’<\/i>ε : ὀϐελίσκος, ὀϐελεία, ἡμιωϐέλιον (<i>v. Meisterh. p. 18, 8). Dans une inscr. att. l’ο init. élidé après un ω final :<\/i> ὀκτὼ 'ϐολῶν, CIA. <i>2 add. 834, b, 2, 70 (329 av. J.C.) ; v. Meisterh. p. 56, 3<\/i>.<\/p><p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. ὀϐελός.<\/p>'"
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                    "description": "ὁ, <b>obol<\/b>, used both as a weight and coin, at Athens, = ⅙ of a δραχμή, rather more than three halfpence, IG1². 140.5, al., freq. in Ar., <i>Nu.<\/i> 118, al. ; πολὺ or μικρὸν τοῦ ὀ. a thing of which you get much or little for an obol, i.e.<br\/><b>worthless<\/b> or <b>valuable<\/b>, Antiph. 135, Eup. 185, cf. Ar. <i>Eq.<\/i> 945 ; ἐν τοῖν δυοῖν ὀβολοῖν θεωρεῖν ΄to sit in the cheap seats΄, D. 18.28. as a weight, Gal. 13.295, etc. (ὀβολός, ὀβελός, ὀβελλός, ὀδελός are different dialect forms of a word for ΄spit’ or ΄nail΄, nails being used in early times as money, six of them making a handful (&lt; δραχμή), cf. Plu. <i>Lys.<\/i> 17.)"
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                    "description": "ὁ, <i>der Obol<\/i>, eine Münze, = 6 χαλκοῦς, der sechste Teil einer δραχμή, etwa 1 Silbergr.; Ar. <i>Nub<\/i>. 119 ; ἡλιαστικός, <i>der Richtersold<\/i>, 853 ; Thuc. 5.47 u. Folgde überall. Uebh. <i>kleine Münze, Scheidemünze<\/i>, DC. 59.6.<br\/>Nach Arist. bei Poll. 9.77 u. <i>EM<\/i>. war anfangs ὀβολός = ὀβελός, s. oben ὀβελίσκος ; wahrscheinlich waren spitze Stückchen Eisen oder Kupfer die ursprüngliche Münze, deren 6 die Hand füllten, δραχμή."
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                    "reference": "Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek based on Abbot-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) (=AS), with corrections and adapted by Tyndale Scholars",
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                    "description": "<b>an obol <\/b>, as a weight, = 1\/6th part of a δραχμή, worth rather more than three halfpence, (Aristophanes Comicus); ἐν δυοῖν ὀβολοῖν θεωρεῖν, as we might say 'to sit in the shilling gallery, ' (Demosthenes Orator) (ML)"
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