You go to buy lettuces: they cost an obolus, but not a talent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference

Evidently to humble my pride and beg an obolus of young Berkley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference

And besides that, twenty pieces of boiled meat at half an obolus apiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

I would not pay, not even an obolus, to any one who called the kardope kardopos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clouds] Reference

This obolus was for the purpose of buying flour to fill the bag he was carrying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

I will not return an obolus to anyone who says him instead of her for a kneading-trough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clouds] Reference

Because, though old and broken-down as he is, he would put to sea on a hurdle to gain an obolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace] Reference

For this Philocrates skewers the finches together and sells them at the rate of an obolus for seven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

Aeschylus, he is going to buy it of you at any price, and you can have a splendid one for an obolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

I would not give more than an obolus for gods who have got to keeping brothels like us mere mortals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

SERVANT I would not give more than an obolus for gods who have got to keeping brothels like us mere mortals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace] Reference

Formerly my sickles would not have sold at an obolus apiece; to-day I am being paid fifty drachmae for every one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace] Reference

Formerly my sickles would not have sold at an obolus apiece, to-day I am being paid fifty drachmas for every one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

Formerly my sickles would not have sold at an obolus apiece, to-day I am being paid fifty drachmae for every one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace] Reference

If then you learn this science, which is false, I shall not pay an obolus of all the debts I have contracted on your account.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

Zeus with his throne and his lightnings would not be worth an obolus if you recovered your sight, were it but for a few instants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

I remember at the feasts of Zeus you had a consuming wish for a little chariot and I bought it for you with the first obolus which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clouds] Reference

Why, Zeus with his throne and his lightnings would not be worth an obolus if you recovered your sight, were it but for a few moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutus] Reference

If then you learn this science, which is false, I shall not have to pay an obolus of all the debts I have contracted on your account.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clouds] Reference

Charon's ferry-boat, 49; obolus in funeral rites, 234.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology] Reference

Shakespeare entered the house and tossed up an obolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A House-Boat on the Styx] Reference

I said to myself that this was Styx and the fare an obolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Fancies] Reference

That will hardly work out to one obolus for each drop of blood!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crushed Flower and Other Stories] Reference

"Not an obolus, by Jupiter!" he murmured, in a language which was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romola] Reference

Why, if we sate here in rags, we wouldn't press in for an obolus before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference

I've heard of poor souls packed off by him without an obolus to cross the ferry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference

In the downward scale the division extends to the quarter-obolus (= 1/24 drachma).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

We pay for stage representations: why deny our obolus to the histrionics of the beggar?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

Lysander immediately requested an addition of an obolus to the daily pay of the seamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest] Reference

Charon will charge my disembodied spirit but a single obolus for crossing his dark ferry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philothea A Grecian Romance] Reference

I have borne them hither, and if the priests speak truly, my life is worth not an obolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century] Reference