obolus造句

• The article Obolus mentions the Spartans had rod shaped iron as a currency, so it could not have been all too plentiful.
• In regards to price, there are numerous allusions to the price of one obolus for a cheap prostitute; no doubt for basic acts.
• This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld.
• In Greece it was 8 chalkoi 1 obolus, 6 obolus 1 drachma, 100 drachma 1 mina ( or mna ), 60 minae 1 Athenian Talent ( Athenian standard ).
• In Greece it was 8 chalkoi 1 obolus, 6 obolus 1 drachma, 100 drachma 1 mina ( or mna ), 60 minae 1 Athenian Talent ( Athenian standard ).
• However, the obolus is additionally a symbol of a journey ( such as the main character's introspection, and thus the reader's own journey of introspection ).
• The song describes the ferryman as " the hooded old man at the rudder, " and seems to connect to the classic image of the obolus ( coin ) to ferry dead souls across the River Styx.
• The obolus, along with the mirror, is a symbol of one of the new schisms in the story, perfect symbols to appear in a compilation already possessing the title of such a potent esoteric symbol as a labyrinth.
• The obolus, the coin used to pay the Ferryman Charon of Greek myth to reach the Land of the Dead, is demonstrative within the story of one heretical sect's belief in the transmigration of the soul through several bodies.
• His odyssey, which can be interpreted as either a search for meaning or a long goodbye, ends on Lake Z黵ich : the references to Greek mythology ( Charon, Obolus, and Hades ) suggest the narrator's suicide in the middle of the lake.
• England herself, till today favourable to the Turks, has manifested to you by means of the obolus and sympathy of one of her great men that she ought to prefer the alliance and gratitude of a confederation of free peoples to the decrepit confederation of the Empire of the Crescent.
• The author's attention to symbols ( such as the wheel, the cross, the mirror, the obolus, and even the " iron scimitar " ) suggest that the battle between orthodoxy and heresy is a war between these physical objects that provide a doorway to esoteric spiritual truth.
• Each member was required to contribute a monthly share to the common pot, the ??????? " phidites ", of which the composition has been passed to us by Dicaearchus ( through Athenaeus and Plutarch " ibid . ", 12 ) : 77 litres of barley, 39 litres of wine, 3 kilograms of cheese, 1.5 kilograms of figs, and 10 Aegina obolus, which served to purchase meat.
• The author uses a quote of Luke 12 : 59, that points to reconsiling with one's apparent enemy, translated as " no one will be released from prison until he has paid the last obolus . " These symbols of self-examination and of death ( be it a quest into eternity, or simply a voyage without end ) are used in this short story that ultimately concerns the main character's pursuit for personal recognition competing beside another man.
• As Philemon highlights, the Solonian brothels provided a service accessible to all, regardless of income . ( One obolus is one sixth of one drachma, the daily salary of a public servant at the end of the 5th century BC . By the middle of the 4th century BC, this salary was up to a drachma and a half . ) In the same light, Solon used taxes he levied on brothels to build a temple to Aphrodite Pandemos ( literally " Aphrodite of all the people " ).
• For it is out of his daily sweat that the material means are taken to support the fictitious structure we call Romanian culture, and we force him to hand out his very last obolus in order to pay for our painters and musicians, the Bucharest Academy and Atheneum members, the literary and scientific awards wherever they are handed out, and we do not have at least the gratitude to produce a single work that would raise his spirits and would make him forget his daily misery for a single moment . ""