Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Collybus

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

COL'LYBUS (κόλλυβος). Properly, a Greek word, meaning a small coin; whence it came to signify, both amongst the Greeks and Romans, the difference of exchange, or agio, as it is called, charged by the dealer for changing the money of one country into the currency of another. Cic. Att. xii. 6. Id. Verr. ii. 3. 78.