Lexicographical Neighbors of Obelias
Literary usage of Obelias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1820)
"The obelias,.deriving its name from its price, or the manner in which it was
baked, was a bread carried on men's shoulders in sacred processions, ..."
2. A Letter from the Chevalier Antonio Canova, And, Two Memoirs Read to the by Ennio Quirino Visconti, Antonio Canova (1816)
"... filled with various kinds of offerings, and particularly with loaves, which
on account of their form " or of their price" the Athenians called obelias. ..."
3. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The obelias, deriving its name from its price, or the manner in which it was
baked, was a bread carried on men's shoulders m ..."
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