sesterce

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As usual she has wasted an hour to save a sesterce, and you, neither of you have any time to spare I will go after her at once No--no, you at any rate, must remain here, for in two hours the matrons and maidens are to meet at the theatre In two hours!

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  1. noun A silver or bronze coin of ancient Rome equivalent to one fourth of a denarius.

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  • And the fourth part of it, consisting of two asses and half of a third, they called "sesterce." —  The Ten Books on Architecture
  • But don't marry Lentulus's niece 47] I.e. $2,400,000; a sesterce was about 4 cents Well," said Drusus, when the business was done, and he turned to go, "I want Cornelia, not her dowry Strange fellow," muttered Flaccus, while Drusus started off in his litter. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
  • "I know that Pontius will not demand a man or a sesterce more or less than is needed for the purpose The architect bowed in silence and Titianus went on But above all things, do you think you can accomplish your task in eight days and nine nights Possibly, at a pinch; and if I could only have four days more at my disposal, most probably Then all that is needed is to delay Hadrian's arrival by four days and nights Send some interesting people--say the astronomer Ptolemaeus, and Favorinus, the sophist, who await him here--to meet him at Pelusium. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • As usual she has wasted an hour to save a sesterce, and you, neither of you have any time to spare I will go after her at once No--no, you at any rate, must remain here, for in two hours the matrons and maidens are to meet at the theatre In two hours! —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • Never a sesterce was won by fretting. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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  1. Latin sēstertius, a coin worth two and a half asses : sēmis, half; see sēmi- in Indo-European roots + tertius, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French sesterce = Spanish Portuguese sestercio = Italian sesterzio, from Latin sestertius: see sestertius.
 

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