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  "headword": "ὀβολός",
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          "definition": "<i>obol,</i> used both as a weight and coin, at Athens, = 1/6 of a δραχμή, rather more than three halfpence, IG 1(2).140.5, al., freq. in Ar., Nu. 118, al. ; πολὺ or μικρὸν τοῦ ὀ. a thing of which you get much or little for an obol, i.e. <i>worthless</i> or <i>valuable,</i> Antiph. 135, Eup. 185, cf. Ar. Eq. 945 ; ἐν τοῖν δυοῖν ὀβολοῖν θεωρεῖν ‘to sit in the cheap seats’, D. 18.28.",
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              "definition": "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 ( δραχμή), cf. Plu. Lys. 17.)",
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