ὀβολός,ὁ,
A. obol,used both as a weight and coin, at Athens,=
1 / 6 of aδραχμή,rather more than three halfpence, IG 12.140.5 , al., freq. in Ar.,Nu. 118 , al. ;πολὺorμικρὸν τοῦ ὀ.a thing of which you get much or little for an obol, i. e.worthlessorvaluable,
Antiph. 135 , Eup. 185 , cf. Ar. Eq. 945 ;ἐν τοῖν δυοῖν ὀβολοῖν θεωρεῖν'to sit in the cheap seats', D. 18.28 .
II. as a weight, Gal. 13.295 , etc. (ὀβολός, ὀβελός, ὀβελλός, ὀδελόςare 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 .)