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Headword: Obolou koriannois tên boulên analabôn elêlutha
Adler number: omicron,8
Translated headword: here I am after winning over the council with an obol's worth of coriander-seed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes [sc. says this]. Meaning, after captivating influential men and relieving their burdens and elevating myself in their favour, I convinced them to incline towards me.[1]
But obols are what we call folles. "Justinian himself, whereas money-changers would give lenders 210 obols for a gold stater, contrived profit for himself, and ordered that only 180 obols should be given per stater."[2]
Also in Aristophanes: "alas, how much those two obols can achieve everywhere!"[3] Because it is said, that [they would place] two obols on the mouth of the dead.
Also attested is the three-obol coin, which generals would get for laziness.[4]
On the obol, see under assaria.[5]
Greek Original:
Obolou koriannois tên boulên analabôn elêlutha: Aristophanês. anti tou sunarpasas hikanous kai kouphisas kai meteôrisas eis emauton têi eunoiai epeisa rhepein. Oboloi de eisin hous kaloumen pholleis. ho Ioustinianos, tôn arguramoibôn huper henos statêros chrusou proïesthai tois xumballousin eiôthotôn i# kai s1# obolous, autos epitechnômenos kerdê oikeia p# kai r# monous huper tou statêros dietaxato didosthai obolous. kai authis Aristophanês: pheu, hôs mega dunasthon pantachou du' obolô. dia to legomenon, hoti tois nekrois epi tou stomatos duo obolous. legetai kai triôbolon, tôn stratêgôn blakeias charin prostithentôn. zêtei peri obolou en tôi assaria.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Knights 682 (the sausage-seller is reporting on his success in bribing the Athenian council, the boule, with free food), with comment from the scholia there.
[2] On the Byzantine coin follis, and the passage quoted from Procopius (which glosses folles as obols), see kappa 1413, phi 564.
[3] Aristophanes, Frogs 141, where Dionysus is first told of the need to pay the ferryman to Hades.
[4] Paraphrase of an Aristophanic scholion misquoted in tau 1171 and phi 235; the scholion is cited correctly in beta 317.
[5] alpha 4126.
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Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 6 November 2008@01:35:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 November 2008@03:48:55.
David Whitehead (tweakette) on 6 November 2008@08:01:11.
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