Usage examples (14)

• Sardesus to the last sestertium -- to gain me back my quarry and my vineyards -- all that I have lost -- I would not give up that slave.
• So ridiculous, moreover, we are in our attires, and for cost so excessive, that as Hierome said of old, Uno filio villarum insunt pretia, uno lino decies sestertium...
• When we had sat down on the steps of the fountain, he answered that all his life he had been collecting sestertium after sestertium, to redeem his beloved son;...
• And wilt thou believe that I, who have still sound judgment to the value of a sestertium, and sense to the value of an as, let myself be borne away by these fantasies,...