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Definition of Sesterces
1. sesterce [n] - See also: sesterce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sesterces
Literary usage of Sesterces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1886)
"One thousand sesterces are denoted by mille sestertii, ... In sums less than
1000000 sesterces, the thousands are denoted either (1) by milia sestertium ..."
2. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"In sums less than 1000000 sesterces, the thousands are denoted either (1) by ...
with the value of 100000 sesterces is used with the proper numeral adverb, ..."
3. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1881)
"Decies HS = 1000000 sesterces (HS = sestertium). 648. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—The
following weights and measures deserve mention : I. The Libra, ..."
4. A Manual of Grecian and Roman Antiquities by Ernst Frederik Bojesen, T. K. Arnold (1874)
"(As many million sesterces as the adverb is a multiple of ten.) How so? ...
(GO millions of sesterces.) In this construction is sestertium declined 1 (Yes. ..."
5. Adam's Latin Grammar: With Some Improvements, and the Following Additions by Alexander Adam, Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1830)
"When a numeral adjective is joined with sestertii, it means just so many sesterces ;
thus, decem sestertii — ten sesterces : but when it is joined with ..."
6. Adam's Latin Grammar: With Some Improvements and the Following Additions by Alexander Adam, Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1839)
"When a numeral adjective is joined with sestertii, it means just so many sesterces;
thus, decem sestertii = ten sesterces : but when it is joined with ..."
7. Adam's Latin Grammar: With Some Improvements, and the Following Additions by Alexander Adam, Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1832)
"Sestertium is the name of a sum, not of a coin, When a numeral adjective is joined
with sestertii, it means just so many sesterces ; thus, decent sestertii ..."
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