drachmae in English
noun
1
the basic monetary unit of Greece (until the introduction of the euro), notionally equal to 100 lepta.
Although we were told that the price of living here had become much more expensive since the euro replaced the drachma , it still seemed pretty cheap to us - especially eating out.
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1. It has also been said that Demosthenes paid Isaeus 10,000 drachmae (somewhat over 1.5 talents) on the condition that Isaeus should withdraw from a school of rhetoric which he had opened, and should devote himself wholly to Demosthenes, his new pupil.