sestertius
noun
sestertii
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pluralof sestertius.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These writers who are unreliable in culinary matters anyway, claim that Apicius spent one hundred million sestertii on his appetite—in gulam.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling
I see," said Ben-Hur; "ten thousand sestertii is a fortune.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
It was arranged then that a messenger should go at night to Thord's lodging-place with the four thousand sestertii.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
Sester′tium, a money of account equal to 1000 sestertii.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
It is represented on some of the sestertii.
From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
