| There was, of course, one more thing that may be worth a few sesterces, but I would not part with the ring for the world. |
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| Those were the good old days, the glory days of butchery and brutality, before those millions of sesterces from the east flooded Rome with luxury and indolence. |
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| On Tiridates, though it would seem hardly within belief, he spent eight hundred thousand sesterces a day, and on his departure presented him with more than a hundred millions. |
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| This amounted to 700 million sesterces stored at Brundisium, the staging ground in Italy for military operations in the east. |
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| For him I must convert one of my sheep or goats to sesterces and slaughter another for his entertainment. |
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| The building cost 60,000 sesterces, with 30,000 more going toward silver cult statues of Caelestis. |
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| Let us spend 210 million sesterces on building a new one that will be a temple more in keeping with the grandeur of the sport. |
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| Legionaries received 900 sesterces a year and could expect 12,000 sesterces on retirement. |
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| A census valuation of 400,000 sesterces and three generations of free birth qualified a man as an equestrian. |
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| He relates the story of a woman who owned a ladle made of the mineral, paying the sum of 150,000 sesterces for the item. |
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| Four hundred sesterces Gracchus gives as dowry to a horn-player. |
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| In the year 6 Augustus established the aerarium militare, donating 170 million sesterces to the new military treasury that provided for both active and retired soldiers. |
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