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κόλλυ^β-ος , ὁ,
A.small coin, κολλύβου for a doit, Ar.Pax 1200, Eup.233, Call.Fr.85: masc. acc. to Phryn. 404, Hsch.:—but neut. κόλλυ^βον , τό, Poll.9.72.
2. small gold weight, Thphr.Lap.46.
3. neut. pl. κόλλυβα, τά, small cakes (cf. “κόλλαβος” 11), Sch.Ar.Pl.768; cf. κόλλυβα: τρωγάλια, Hsch.
II. κ., ὁ, rate of exchange, IG12(5).817 (pl., Tenos, ii B.C.), SIG672.32 (Delph., ii B.C.); agio, Cic.Verr.2.3.78.181, Att.12.6.1, PFay.56.7 (ii A.D.), etc. (Cf. Hebr. [hudot ]ālap 'change', 'exchange'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 12.6.1
    • Aristophanes, Peace, 1200
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