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ὀβελ-ίσκος , ὁ, Dim. of ὀβελός I,
A.small spit, skewer, Ar.Ach. 1007, Nu.178, V.354, Av.388, 672, Sotad. Com.1.10, X.HG3.3.7, Arist.Pol.1324b19, PEleph.5.2 (iii B. C.), etc.
2. pl., spits used as money, Plu.Lys.17, Fab.27 ; cf. ὀβολός fin.
3. nail, IG12.313.141 (prob.), 11(2).148.70 (Delos, iii B. C., pl.).
4. = subula, Gloss.
5. window bar, ib. (pl.).
II. anything shaped like a spit : the blade of a two-edged sword, Plb.6.23.7 ; the iron head of the Roman pilum, D.H.5.46.
III. obelisk, D.S.1.46, Str.17.1.27, Plin.HN36.64.
IV. drainage-conduit, “οἱ ἐν τοῖς τείχεσιν ὀ.” D.S.19.45, cf. IG 9(1).692.14 (Corc., ii B. C.) ; so perh. περὶ τοῦ πιλῶνος (= πυλῶνος) καὶ τοὐβιλίσκου (= τοῦ ὀβελίσκου) PLond.2.391.2 (vi A. D.) ; cf. “ὀβολίσκος” 1.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 388
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 672
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 354
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    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.3.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.23.7
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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 36.64
    • Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 27
    • Plutarch, Lysander, 17
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.46
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    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 5.46
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