sesterces

a single donation, the sum of two hundred thousand sesterces from a stranger of Pontus, who proposed to fix his residence in the capital.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Suetonius and Donatus both inform us that it was acted with the greatest applause, and that the Poet received a larger price for it from the Ædiles than had ever been paid for any before, namely, 8000 sesterces, which is about equal to 200 crowns, which in those times was a considerable sum.”] [Footnote 19: _Acted twice_) -- This probably means “twice in one day.”

The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847

Gracchus gave a dowry of 400,000 sesterces to a cornet player -- or perhaps he'd performed on a straight horn.

Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic? Elizabeth Abbott 2011

Gracchus gave a dowry of 400,000 sesterces to a cornet player -- or perhaps he'd performed on a straight horn.

Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic? Elizabeth Abbott 2011

It drew gasps and a round of applause all to itself, as well it might, for it was carved from Numidian ivory, and had cost over a hundred thousand sesterces “Macedonia will pay!”

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

My secret hope was that Cicero would come to his senses in a day or two, not least because I knew that he did not have three and a half million sesterces, or anything like it.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

This was a citrus wood table which he had been given by a client and which was said to be worth half a million sesterces.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Huge rewards, of up to one hundred thousand sesterces, were to be offered to anyone—slaves as well as freemen—with information about potential traitors.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

From his personal funds he proposed to make an immediate donation to the Treasury of two hundred million sesterces.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

“And why would you want to pay two million sesterces for a patch of scorched earth containing a shrine to Liberty?”

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010