Note 247 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.

Pinkerton on Coins. Vol. i. p. 89. and Ainsworth.

Ἐπὶ μὲν λαγῷ ἁλόντι δύο ὀβολὼ ἐμβάλλουσιν. The game of the modern courser was valued by the Celtic sportsmen, for Dian’s treasury, at about 2½d. of British currency. The obolus was a small Greek coin of silver, weighing about 11 grains, in ancient money worth 1½d. It was the sixth part of the drachma, which nearly answered to the Roman denarius. The double obolus, or diobolion, exactly hit the value of the hare in the Celtic scale of appreciation.