If they had to pay only a sesterce for every venomous word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emperor — Complete] Reference

"You will never get a sesterce of Cornelia's dowry," he declared.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

A Sabine would use up a year to get in a sesterce from a frog pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference

Orpheus would not be worth a sesterce if they fell into the hands of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

But since I have won every sesterce he owns I must needs pay for his board.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

His domestic economy was strict and simple, the accounts being kept to a sesterce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference

Once let the mob overtake them, and the lives of all three were not worth a sesterce.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

"I know that Pontius will not demand a man or a sesterce more or less than is needed for the purpose.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

The marriage formula with Ahenobarbus once uttered, while Quintus lived, and by no possibility, save by an open spoliation that would have stirred even calloused Rome, could Lucius touch a sesterce of his intended victim's property.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

Here centred those busy equites, the capitalists, whose transactions ran out even beyond the lands covered by the eagles, so that while Gaul was yet unconquered, Cicero could boast, "not a sesterce in Gaul changes hands without being entered in a Roman ledger.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

"If you don't," I pursued, emboldened, "perhaps you'll be willing to explain how it can be that your king holds you and your band in such high esteem, whereas, to all appearances, you have not acquired a sesterce - worth of loot since long before I reached this neighborhood; in fact, as far as I can hear, have not succeeded in robbing anyone since you located your camp here?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference

If there is no war, no proscription, no chance to make a sesterce in a hurry! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

"If I return, I will seek my sesterce again; if I am not victor, I will not return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference

A bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

If they had to pay only a sesterce for every venomous word, I tell you Pontius, the city would be impoverished and our treasury would soon be fuller than that of Gyges at Sardis. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

In the next, he says how a certain house which Atticus had intended to purchase had been secured by Fonteius for 130,000 sesterces ” something over L1000, taking the sesterce at 2 d.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Cicero]

Never a sesterce was won by fretting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

"Well, be it so, but not a sesterce more.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

"Two thousand drachmae; not a sesterce more.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

I find I spend every sesterce I have, and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

"Not a sesterce more," answered the other coldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

A sesterce in my own name, as if you had married some low farmer's daughter. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

"Never a sesterce will I get out of him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

"Two thousand drachmae; not a sesterce more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emperor — Complete] Reference

A handful of sesterce spikes and a mallet? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]

"I-know-it-all-and-will-share-it with-you" bravado that masks someone who wouldn't know a drachma from a sesterce, even if his life depended on it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Scout]

"For all these things I can give you -- wait a minute -- twenty-seventy-four hundred -- four hundred and fifty -- I can give you six hundred and fifty drachmae, not a sesterce more!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference