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A small brass coin (nearly 1a in value) placed by the Greeks in the mouth of the dead to pay Charon for ferrying the body over the river Styx. Same as obŏlos, an obol.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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