9 Verbs to Use for the Word drachma

Cicero and Pompey one day surprised Lucullus at one of his ordinary banquets, when he expected no guests, and even that cost fifty thousand drachmas,about four thousand dollars; his table-couches were of purple, and his vessels glittered with jewels.

So rigid was the discipline of the ancient gymnasium, and so important was it considered that confidence should be undoubting there, that thefts, exceeding ten drachmae in amount, committed within its precincts, were punished with death.

She, like Geminius, had a personal grudge against him, for in his sixth consulship he had fined her four drachmas for ill-conduct.

He likewise gathered one hundred and ninety drachmas of gold made into necklaces of various kinds.

I will not, however, stop there; but still continue my traffic until I have got together a hundred thousand drachmas.

He therefore presented four thousand drachmas of wrought gold and seventy slaves to Vasco Nuñez and Colmenares, as they were the leaders.

Rhodian commerce was still more directly affected by the erection of the free port at Delos; the Rhodian customs-dues, which hitherto had produced 1,000,000 drachmae (41,000 pounds) annually, sank in a very brief period to 150,000 drachmae (6180 pounds).

The miners, in sifting some dry earth gathered at different places, declared that they had found such a great quantity of gold hidden in that earth that a miner could easily collect three drachmas in a day's work.

Besides this old man, a number of natives brought ingots, weighing ten or twelve drachmas, and they had the effrontery to say that in the region where they had found them, they sometimes discovered ingots as big as the head of a child whom they indicated.

9 Verbs to Use for the Word  drachma