10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SESTERTIUM»
Discover the use of
sestertium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sestertium and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges
One thousand sesterces are denoted hy mille sestertii, or tnille sestertium. III. In
sums less than 1,000,000 sesterces, the thousands are denoted either (1) by
millia sestertium (gen. plur.), or (2) by ses- tertia : Duo millia sestertium, or duo ...
2
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities
This was also denoted by the symbol H S, the obvious explanation of which is "IIS
(2J) millia ;w but Gronovius understands it as 2^ pounds of silver (sestertium
pondus argetdi), which he considers to have been worth originally 1000 sestertii,
...
One thousand sesterces are denoted by mille sestertii, or milk sestertium. III. In
sums less than 1,000,000 sesterces, the thousands are denoted either (1) by
millia sestertium (gen. plur.), or (2) by ses- tertia: Duo millia sestertium, or duo ...
4
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-century Europe: A Dialogue ...
A NOTE ON CURRENCY Monetary values in De Missione are given in
sestertium (sesterces) and aurei (gold coins). The value ascribed to the
sestertium is difficult but not impossible to unravel. On p. 86 of the original edition
(p. 134 below) no ...
5
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs ...
Antony on the Ides of March, when Caesar was killed, owed quadringenties, j£
322,916 : 13 : 4, which he paid before the kalends of April, Cic. Phil. if. 37., and
squandered of the public money, sestertium septies mi/lies, ^5,651,041:13:4, Cic.
6
A Copious Latin Grammar
4, ad summam sestertii decies. Accus. Tac. 2. 47, centies sestertium pollicitus
Caesar : Sen. ad Helv. 10, sestertium centies computavit: Cic. Phil. 12. 5,
sestertium septies millies avertisse : Cic. Verr. 2. 10, sestertium quadringenties
accepisse.
Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller, 1838
7
Adam's Latin Grammar: With Numerous Additions and ...
In money matters its suhstantive is either As, or pondus ., and Sestertius As is two
Asses and a half ; Sestertium pondus, two pondlra and a half [of silver,] or 250
Denarii. " When the Denarius passed for ten Asses, the Sesterce of 2i Asses was
...
Charles Dexter Cleveland, 1836
8
The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine
But, to avoid ambiguity, they did not use the neuter sestertium in the singular
number, when the whole sum amounted to' ... or decies sestertium, for centena
millia nummorum, or sestertiorum (in the masculine gender), omitting centena
millia, ...
9
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs ...
Sestertium is the name of a sum, not of a coin. When a numeral noun is joined
with sestertii, it means just so many sesterces ; thus, decern sestertii, ten
sesterces : but when it is joined with sestertia, it means so many thousand
sestertii ; thus, ...
Alexander Adam, John Richardson Major, 1835
10
Roman antiquities: or an account of the manners and customs ...
Sestertium is the name of a sum, not of a coin. When a numeral noun is joined
with sestertii, it means just so many sesterces ; thus, decern sestertii, ten
sesterces : but when it is joined with sestertia, it means so many thousand
sestertii ; thus, ...
Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo Da Ponte, 1842
