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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

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 inseritur; 'tis an ordinary thing to put a thousand oaks and a hundred oxen into a suit of apparel, to wear a whole manor on his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

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; but his master, a certain Pansa, when the money was delivered to him, took it, but kept the son in slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

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, and I do this for the reason that, if they are not possible, they are at least grandiose and uncommon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

Cilo iiii. vir a (edilicia) p (otestate), qui testamento suo (sestertium) n (ummum) xxxx. (milia) municipibus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

But he distended his nostrils and panted; seeing which, Petronius shrugged his shoulders, and said, -- "There is not in him a philosopher to the value of one sestertium, and I shall never make a man of that son of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

Meantime, you can take this scabbard if you will, "handing to him, as he spoke, the sheath of the second weapon;" the price is one sestertium; it is the finest silver, chased as you see, and overlaid with pure gold. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

"I must have back my sestertium.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference

58), 'Qua sapientia, quibus philosophorum praeceptis, intra quadriennium regiae amicitiae ter miliens sestertium paravisset?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

'sestertium viciens' -- twenty million sesterces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference

"A sestertium.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference

(14) Sexcenties sestertium.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Cornelii Taciti Opera] Reference

(56) BisiSvicietmiUiff sestertium, LibcUasTur.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Cornelii Taciti Opera] Reference

'sestertium viciens' ” twenty million sesterces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Cicero]