Talent of silver
“dowry”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a talent of silver · fifteen hundred talents · five talents of silver · forty talents · ten thousand talents
spoken of as
1 expressionTalents and silver1 mention
Third Olynthiac (Greek)
In that month, with a great effort, after the celebration of the Mysteries you dispatched Charidemus with ten ships, unmanned, and a sum of five talents of silver.
in the texts
Third Olynthiac
The monetary units used to quantify Athenian resources, savings, and waste.
In that month, with a great effort, after the celebration of the Mysteries you dispatched Charidemus with ten ships, unmanned, and a sum of five talents of silver.
and yet we have been robbed of our own soil, we have wasted on unnecessary objects more than fifteen hundred talents, our statesmen in peace have lost us the allies we gained in war, and we have provided a training-ground for this formidable rival.
Well, it was the month of Maemacterion, and there was a long and excited debate in the Assembly, and you finally decided to launch a fleet of forty vessels manned by citizens under the age of forty-five, and to raise forty talents by a special tax.
In Defence of Lycophron
The sum of a talent of silver that Euphemus supplied as dowry, enabling the woman's marriage to Charippus.
or was she growing old unmarried in her home, she who was married at once, as soon as Euphemus supplied a talent of silver as a dowry, obviously with no ulterior motive but simply out of kindness?