What is "sestertii"

Usage examples of "sestertii".

Suppose you find your friend to-night, and place to his order sestertii in such amount as you choose.

I offered publicly in the market-place five thousand sestertii for a living cock and hen, but was told that the race had long since been exterminated, and that, as money would no longer buy food, money was no longer desired by the poorest beggar in Rome.

Wherefore, in the same spirit I say, can I get them to run together, moved by my will, the four as one, thou shalt have the sestertii and the crown, and I my revenge.