Definition of "oboli" [oboli]

• Plural of obolus. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Take one drachm of ebeny and nine oboli of burnt copper, rub them upon a whetstone, add three oboli of saffron; triturate all these things reduced to a fine powder, pour in an Attic hemina of sweet wine, and then place in the sun and cover up; when sufficiently digested, use it."
• "Peter, instead of warning her charitably that he had just destroyed her husband by apoplexy for having kept back a few oboli, and cautioning her therefore to look well to herself, leads her as it were intentionally into the snare."
• "The old firm's national animal is the spider and its currency is the oboli."