| The obol referred to is the small coin placed between the lips of the dead to pay the toll to the ferryman of Hades. |
| The only one with a regular revenue stream seemed to be Charon's ferry service, no shortage of dead people willing to pay the required obol to get across. |
| Second, Lysias claimed that the grain merchants violated the stricture limiting profits to one obol per medimnus of grain. |
| A less expensive assignation, however, might have cost one obol or less. |
| Six years ago to-day it was I came to Rome, with barely an obol of ready money, to make my fortune by my wits. |
