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lepton. The seventh of an obolus, which was the sixth of a drachma or denarius, "penny" (; ; ). Half of a quadrans or farthing. The smallest coin. The widow sowed her all; she might have kept back one of the two mites for herself (). God accepted the widow's mites, but rejects the miser's "mite."