I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas. From LearnThat.org. [Demosthenes (384 - 322 BC)]
I'd never seen her in anything but ratty T-shirts and paint-splattered jeans before, and she looked like a million golden drachma. From Wordnik.com. ['The Last Olympian'] Reference
Well and good! but they'll never get another drachma here. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
The standard coin in earlier times was the two-drachma piece. From Wordnik.com. [THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION] Reference
Lacedaemon, at the rate of an Attic drachma a day for each man. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
I fear you not, thanks to this ring, for which I paid Eudemus a drachma. From Wordnik.com. [Plutus] Reference
Dropping the euro to go back to the drachma would be disastrous for Greece. From Wordnik.com. [Troubled Countries] Reference
Often I could make as much as an extra drachma, if a song was asked for by name. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
I mean, if they had the old drachma, you know, they'd have 200% inflation by now. From Wordnik.com. [Get Briefed: Robert Diamond Jr.] Reference
He mentions the parables of the lost drachma, the lost sheep, the prodigal son, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Theas ran after me, out of sight of home, and gave me a heavy silver double drachma. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
The Amphictyonic deputies to Delos receive a drachma a day from the exchequer of Delos. From Wordnik.com. [THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION] Reference
For it is just the same as if a drachma asked to be recommended to a person to be tested. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
The following table will make the arithmetic clear: — 6 ob. = 1 drachma 10 minae = 6000 ob. From Wordnik.com. [Ways and Means] Reference
But he himself, though he arrives late, will nevertheless get his drachma as a public advocate. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
If they could be split in two, I would take them at a drachma per hundred to use as vine-props. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
The same Demetrius, when he was legislating himself, decreed each of these women a drachma per diem. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The guardians receive from the state a drachma apiece for their keep, and the youths four obols apiece. From Wordnik.com. [THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION] Reference
TRYGAEUS If they could be split in two, I would take them at a drachma per hundred to use as vine-props. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
The well-off philosopher who bought Plato would not take back a drachma; he said it had been a privilege. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
I got a plate of stewed squid and a drink, and was taken on to start that evening, at a real Samian drachma. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Tell all your friends and family not to give Kellogg's one single penny, ruble, rupee or drachma of your money. From Wordnik.com. [David Henry Sterry: Show Your Love for Michael Phelps: Boycott Kellogg's] Reference
If Greece still used the drachma, for instance, it could print more money and inflate its way out of its crisis. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. stocks end worst May in years] Reference
About 9 3/4 pence; a drachma (= six obols) would be very high pay for a sailor — indeed, just double the usual amount. From Wordnik.com. [Hellenica] Reference
But bring back the drachma and suddenly Greece doesn't have to cut off its right arm to appease the wrath of its lenders. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Rubin: Bring Back the Drachma] Reference
First the members of the Assembly receive a drachma for the ordinary meetings, and nine obols for the 'sovereign' meeting. From Wordnik.com. [THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION] Reference
'I suppose you'll call it exercise when they're flapping round the house with hundred drachma notes in their filthy beaks.'. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Whether investors, even for an additional risk premium, would flock so willingly to drachma-denominated bonds is questionable. From Wordnik.com. [There's Safety in the Euro Zone] Reference
Two thirds of the ten million Greeks enthusiastically welcomed the end of the drachma and the arrival of euro notes and coins. From Wordnik.com. [Barry D. Wood: Greece and the Euro: Recession With No Exit] Reference
First the members of the Assembly receive a drachma for the ordinary meetings, and nine obols for the ‘sovereign’ meeting. From Wordnik.com. [The Athenian Constitution] Reference
I had black hair, before it whitened; also, though my beard covers it now, a dark mole on my cheek, as big as a double drachma. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
The drachma was about the value of fifteen cents, and consequently the whole sum was about a dollar and a half, or six shillings. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
He received a drachma for the two of us and went on the fish-market to get it changed and then brought me back three mullet scales. From Wordnik.com. [The Wasps] Reference
Greece may get a temporary rescue, he thinks, but will someday miss debt payments and might revert to its old currency (the drachma). From Wordnik.com. [The Real Greek Tragedy] Reference
If Greece were still on the drachma, Athens could inflate its way out of this crisis, effectively reducing the amount of debt it owes. From Wordnik.com. [5 reasons why Europe is sick] Reference
For a moment she thought shrinkingly of teaching Philip; after all, there were women in every city who for a drachma put up with worse. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
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