After she had recovered from this fit, by the care of her attendants, she ordered ten sestercesto be given to Virgil for every line relating (171) to that subject; a gratuity which amounted to about two thousand pounds sterling.
Upon the day of election, he distributed to the freemen of the Fabian and Scaptian tribes, in which he himself was enrolled, a thousandsesterces each, that they might look for nothing from any of the candidates.
Eventually, whenever Galba dined with him, Otho went the length of presenting a hundred sestercesto each of the soldiers on guard, on the pretext that this was instead of entertaining them.
To return to the senate; a bill was now passed that a loan of 47 sixty million sesterces should be raised from private individuals and administered by Pompeius Silvanus.
He likewise reared temporary houses for the reception of the forlorn multitude: and from Ostia and the neighboring cities were brought, up the river, household necessaries; and the price of grain was reduced to three sesterces the measure.
The rewards appointed for informers by the Papian law, he reduced to a fourth part, and distributed to the people four hundred sesterces a man.
He twice distributed to the people a bounty of three hundred sesterces a man, and as often gave a splendid feast to the senate and the equestrian order, with their wives and children.
At a certain revel, he made a present of two millions of sesterces to one Cythicus, a driver of a chariot.
He had found out that a rich provincial had given two hundred thousand sesterces to his chamberlains for an underhand invitation to his table, and he was much pleased to find that honour valued at so high a rate.
As stated above, there can be little doubt that the aurichalcum of the Christian Era was brass, and further, we do know of brasssesterces of this period.
Next to Livian (copper) this kind best absorbs cadmia, and is almost as good as aurichalcum for making sesterces and double asses.
He said that he had agreed with you to do the work at three sesterces a foot, and that he had stepped it, and made it three miles.
The agents of King Eumenes of Pergamus were here yesterday, and gave me five thousand sesterces apiece for the pick of a hundred statues.
They are worth two hundred thousand sesterces if they are worth one, and now the whole lot is going to the bottom.
He was willing to expend two thousand sesterces in order to have such a creature about his house, to have him ready to call when his guests seemed dull between the courses of a sumptuous meal.
Room had to be made for the masters of Rome, the wealthy and the idle, who threw sesterces about for the gratification of their smallest whim, as a common man would shake the dust from his shoes.
He himself received a percentage on the proceeds of the sale, a few sesterces mayhap that would go to swell the little hoard which ultimately would purchase freedom.
Good health and strength, two thousandsesterces were a poor price to pay for the use of these skilled hands.
His liberty, his wedding, and fifty thousand sesterces are at stake.
He thrice bestowed upon the people a largess of three hundred sesterces each man; and, at a public show of gladiators, a very plentiful feast.
The library which the younger Pliny dedicated to his townsmen at Comum cost a million sesterces and he contributed a large sum to the support of a library at Milan.
The presents of a few sesterces given them as prize money in no way made sufficient recompense for all the miseries and privations which they had passed through during their long absence.
For a fish that weighed Six pounds, six thousand sesterces he paid!
Nero admired him so much that he gave Virgilius three hundred thousand sesterces for his share of him, and set him free.
It was a gift of money that he made, a large gift, for Lucanus was prosperous and received manysesterces of gold from the imperial treasury, besides having a lucrative practice.
A thing's soon done when the gods will it; I cleared ten million sesterces by that voyage, all velvet, and bought in all the estates that had belonged to my patron, right away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sesterces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
