Δραχμή
drachma
Translated by Catharine Roth21 Mar 2005Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
See under "talent."1 100 drachmas make one m(i)na.2
A drachma [is] a weight of currency equal to 10 drachmas of silver.
A drachma [is] six obols.3
And Aristophanes [writes]: "spend three drachmas for me [to buy] a piglet." [This is said] in reference to those who are about to die or to be initiated [sc. into the Mysteries]; since the initiates used to sacrifice a small pig. The initiates were considered to be enrolling among the pious.4
And [there is] a proverb: "for a drachma he plays the pipes, but for four he stops." See under "Arabian messenger."5
A drachma [is] a weight of currency equal to 10 drachmas of silver.
A drachma [is] six obols.3
And Aristophanes [writes]: "spend three drachmas for me [to buy] a piglet." [This is said] in reference to those who are about to die or to be initiated [sc. into the Mysteries]; since the initiates used to sacrifice a small pig. The initiates were considered to be enrolling among the pious.4
And [there is] a proverb: "for a drachma he plays the pipes, but for four he stops." See under "Arabian messenger."5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δραχμή· ζήτει ἐν τῷ τάλαντα. αἱ ρʹ δραχμαὶ ποιοῦσι μίαν μνᾶν. Δραχμὴ δὲ ὁλκὴ νομίσματος εἰς ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ιʹ. Δραχμή, ἓξ ὀβολῶν. καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης· εἰς χοιρίδιον δάνεισόν μοι τρεῖς δραχμάς. ἐπὶ τῶν μελλόντων ἀποθνήσκειν ἢ μυεῖσθαι· ἐπεὶ οἱ μυούμενοι χοῖρον ἔθυον. ἐδόκουν δὲ οἱ μυούμενοι ἐς τοὺς εὐσεβεῖς τάττεσθαι. καὶ παροιμία· δραχμῆς μὲν αὐλεῖ, τεττάρων δὲ παύεται· ζήτει ἐν τῷ Ἀράβιος ἄγγελος.
Betacode
*draxmh/: zh/tei e)n tw=| ta/lanta. ai( r# draxmai\ poiou=si mi/an mna=n. *draxmh\ de\ o(lkh\ nomi/smatos ei)s a)rguri/ou draxma\s i#. *draxmh/, e(\c o)bolw=n. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: ei)s xoiri/dion da/neiso/n moi trei=s draxma/s. e)pi\ tw=n mello/ntwn a)poqnh/skein h)\ muei=sqai: e)pei\ oi( muou/menoi xoi=ron e)/quon. e)do/koun de\ oi( muou/menoi e)s tou\s eu)sebei=s ta/ttesqai. kai\ paroimi/a: draxmh=s me\n au)lei=, tetta/rwn de\ pau/etai: zh/tei e)n tw=| *)ara/bios a)/ggelos.
Notes (4)
- [1] tau 34.↩
- 2cf. mu 1144. ↩
- 3cf. Etymologicum Magnum 287.20. ↩
- 4Aristophanes, Peace 374, with scholion; cf. mu 1385. ↩
- 5alpha 3729.
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- δ1222Διώβολονdouble-obol[Double-obol] and three-obol, and half-obol likewise.
- δ1491Δραγμὴ χαλαζῶσαa drachma falling as hail; a handful falling as hailIn the time of Diophantus the theor{et}ikon came into being, a drachma. And when a hailstorm from the sky stopped at that time, the joke was that it was a handful of hailstones.
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