I find I spend every sesterce I have, and all I can borrow.
The marriage formula with Ahenobarbus once uttered, while Quintus lived, and by no possibility, save by an open spoliation that would have stirred even calloused Rome, could Lucius touch a sesterce of his intended victim's property.
But since I have won every sesterce he owns I must needs pay for his board.
Curio, with a lugubrious whisper, "to think of it, I have never a sesterce left that I can call my own, to stake on the struggle!
Her vast estates she managed herself and she knew to a sesterce the value of every piece of property, the justifiable expenses of maintaining each, and the income each should yield.
She had always provided for his necessities, but had always insisted on scrutinizing every item in his accounts, and on being convinced of his need for every sesterce she gave him.
There is in this Case all that the fire has left of a Pompeian money-box, and among the coins which it contains is a brass sesterce of Nero, whose reign ended eleven years before the catastrophe.
I know that Pontius will not demand a man or a sesterce more or less than is needed for the purpose.
If they had to pay only a sesterce for every venomous word, I tell you Pontius, the city would be impoverished and our treasury would soon be fuller than that of Gyges at Sardis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sesterce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
