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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma..
Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.
The Globe editors have marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: "Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an obolus (†)".
Use obolus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Obolus means A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.
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