And more will I show thee now: I myself will eat and drink ten thousandsestertia at a draught.
Knowest thou that I have sold a portion of those gems to the rich Jews of Alexandria, and at a great price, ay, at five thousand sestertia for each one?
They have deposited with him 500 sestertia apiece, on condition that whoever Cato condemns should forfeit it, and that it should be paid over to his competitors.
Yet amid all this lavish expenditure, two poorsestertia will be deemed an ample remuneration for Quintilian.
Do you complain of being defrauded of ten sestertia by impious fraud?
Lucan; and at his death left him one hundred sestertia and his library.
Gracchus[94] gave four hundred sestertia as his dowry, with himself, to a bugler, or else one that blew the straight trumpet.
He told me in answer that he had himself contracted to do the work for sixteen sestertia (about 128 pounds), but that you had afterwards made many additions to the work, but nothing to the price, and that he had therefore given it up.
In a previous letter I mentioned to you a sum of 110 sestertia to be paid to Statius.
Lygian, if he is a man, might make millions ofsestertia in the course of one year; for if he choked Croton, like a whelp, who can resist him?
If I receive a thousand sestertia to-day, two days hence his soul will be in Hades; and then, if souls preserve memory and the gift of thought, he will know for the first time how I loved him.
But he will take even a few sestertia not to touch the face of the dead with iron.
Straightway from hand to hand went tablets on which were written names of favorites, and also the number of sestertia which each man wagered on his favorite.
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.
In money again it would surely be needless pedantry in the translator of a satirist to talk of sestertia rather than pounds.
I have no less than a hundred sestertia upon Tetraides.
I paid six sestertia for her, she is worth twelve now,' muttered Stratonice.
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.
And it was to conciliate him that I lost to him twenty sestertia and a well-favored slave.
And after all, though he had too carelessly made his wager, he had won twenty sestertia and a male slave, and that was something.
How many sestertia I have been offered for her, how many high officers of my forces have desired to obtain her for service upon their own wives, I cannot now remember.
Persius was a man of considerable means, as is shown by his will and his landed property: 'Reliquit circa HS vicies matri et sorori; scriptis tamen ad matrem codicillis Cornuto rogavit ut daretsestertia ut quidam centum, ut alii volunt .
Against my fifty sestertia he will stake any of his slaves excepting this Greek page?
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!
As soon as she appeared upon the block, this brute stepped forward and bid twenty sestertia for her.
The new-found lord who had spent two thousand sestertia on her purchase?
So it went on till the large total of sixty sestertia was offered, whereon the Eastern advanced two more, at which price, amidst the laughter of the audience, she was knocked down to him.
Quite so, just like Domitian and the two thousand sestertia man and, indeed, half the male population of Rome, who, when they saw her yesterday were moved by the same family feeling.
When the full two thousandsestertia were counted, that is, over fifteen thousand pounds of our money, this second basket still remained more than a third full.
Shall we say--fifty sestertia on receipt of the slave?
Well, to a man with many expenses, five sestertia always come in useful.
The man who can afford to pay two thousand sestertia for a single slave cannot easily be hidden.
To what degree of boldness would five hundred sestertia inspire you?
So please you, Caesar, the child was no more to me than any other, but she was of great importance to my patron, and he bargained and paid me seventy sestertia to secretly kill it.
Five hundred sestertia are not to be picked up every day for the light labour of a few hours, together with the simple task of keeping one's mouth shut concerning the matter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sestertia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
