Meaning lends money.[1]
Lysias [writes]: "not even if one were to calculate much less interest than these obol-weighing men exact from others".[2] Obol-weighers is what they used to call money-lenders, as
Hyperides and comedy [make clear].[3]
Obolostatei: anti tou daneizei. Lusias: oud' an hoi polloi elattona tokon logisaito tis, ê hoson houtoi obolostatountes tous allous prattontai. elegon de obolostatas tous daneistas, hôs Huperidês kai hê kômôidia.
[1] Third person singular, present, of
ὀβολοστατέω ; evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2] Lys. fr.156 Sauppe, reading
εἰ πολὺ ἐλάττονα (as in the Suda's source, Harpokration s.v.) rather than the
οἱ πολλοὶ ἐλάττονα transmitted here.
[3] "Obol-weigher" appears as
omicron 10, with an unrelated gloss.
