sestertium
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Etymology
Origin of sestertium
1530–40; < Latin sēstertium genitive plural of sēstertius sesterce, taken as neuter singular
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Diodotus is dead; he has left me perhaps 1,000 sestertia.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.
And if he won, how easily would those two hundred sestertia have been regained, and what a triumph over the one who had enticed him!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Fifteen purses of a hundred sestertia each; a large sum, but the larger the better, since I had my armor bearer in my mind, and felt certain to win.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various
But this thought was not disagreeable; for Chilo understood that in that event he would be necessary again to Vinicius, and could squeeze afresh a goodly number of sestertia from the tribune.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
And it was to conciliate him that I lost to him twenty sestertia and a well-favored slave.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various
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