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He sold his manuscripts, and secured to himself, from the sale, a sum of four oboli a day, which was to be his whole income.

All those who could not produce the required obolus were obliged to wait one hundred years, at the end of which time Charon reluctantly ferried them over free of charge.

The architects who superintended the building of the temple of Polias, on the other hand, got only 6 oboli per day, and the contractor 5.

This resembles the practice of the Greeks and Romans, of placing an obolus, Charon’s fee, in the mouth of the deceased.

I will none of thee; not a franc, not an obolus.