Associations to the word «Obolus»

Wiktionary

OBOLUS, noun. A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma.

Dictionary definition

OBOLUS, noun. A Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne