Lexicographical Neighbors of Sestertium
Literary usage of Sestertium
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)
"In sums containing one or more millions of sesterces, sestertium with the value
... In the examples under IV., sestertium is treated as a nenter noun In the ..."
2. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1896)
"In spite of this weight of manuscript authority, emendations, based on the theory
that in this construction sestertium is always a neuter singular ..."
3. A Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius by Henry John Roby (1872)
"Usually the numeral adverb and sestertium are put alone, ... In these expressions
again sestertium was taken to be a neuter substantive, and described as ..."
4. A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1860)
"A sestertium =: a thousand sestertii: it was the name of a sum, not , of a coin.
546. Sestertii and sestertia are used quite regularly with numeral ..."
5. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1876)
"IV In sums containing one or more millions of sesterces, sestertium with the
value of 100000 sesterces is used with the propel numeral adverb, decies, ..."
6. A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools by Johan Nikolai Madvig, George Woods, Thomas Anthony Thacher (1892)
"But instead of this- we commonly find the abbreviated expression decies
sestertium (generally reversed sestertium decies), and so on for larger numbers: ..."
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