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		Martial also wrote of a slave who cost 100,000 sesterces, and he made fun of patrons who could offer no more than 100 quadrantes (6 1/4 sesterces*) to their sycophants as a day's gift.
		sesterces (625,000 den.), and a iugerum (slightly more than 3/5 acre) of land might cost between 1,000 (250 den.) and 12,000 sesterces (3,000 den.).
		To indicate 100,000 sesterces they wrote HS with a line on top and on each side.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/9601/nummi/coins.html (847 words)

	The Avalon Project : Charter of Urso, 44 B.C.
		Magistrates failing to administer such oath shall be fined 5,000 sesterces and shall be sued and prosecuted by any person at will for that amount in accordance with this law.
		The duumvirs holding office in the said colony shall propose to the decurions concerning the dispatch of public delegations when a majority of the decurions of the said colony are present, and any decree, passed by a majority of those present at that meeting, shall be lawful and valid.
		Any person acting in contravention of this regulation shall be condemned to pay 5,000 sesterces to the colonists of the said colony and shall be sued by any colonist of the said colony at will for that amount.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/medieval/charter_of_urso.htm (2619 words)

	monete_en (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the examples under d), sestertium is treated as a neuter noun in the singular, though originally it was probably the genitive plural of sestertius, and the full expression for 1,000,000 sesterces was decies centena milia sestertium.
		The words centena milia were afterward generally omitted, and finally sestertium lost its force as a genitive plural, and became a neuter noun in the singular, capable of declension.
		Martial also wrote of a slave who cost 100,000 sesterces, and he made fun of patrons who could offer no more than 100 quadrantes (6 1/4 sesterces) to their sicophants as a day's gift.
	www.the-colosseum.net /history/monete_en.htm (1551 words)

	NLPVF:: Fik Meijer: Chariot Racing (Wagenrennen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the beginning of the imperial age, the minimum annual income of a Roman citizen was between 100 and 125 sesterces.
		Calpurnianus, the Johan Cruyff of Roman chariot-driving, won a total of 1.2 million sesterces in first prizes alone, which constituted only a portion of his lifelong income.
		The professional contender Diocles actually raked in the astronomical sum of 36 million sesterces during his career.
	www.nlpvf.nl /book/book2.php?Book=366 (446 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		It was an offence to obstruct the flow of water, punishable by a fine of ten thousand sesterces.
		A base was laid of logs and stones, and on top of that were layers of variously sized stones, broken tiles, mud, sand and concrete, with sloping sides (camber) for drainage.
		The roads cost 10,000 sesterces per mile to build, so the enormous cost had to be paid by the emperors themselves.
	www.camelotintl.com /romans/technology.html (1202 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 579 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		During the Republic and the first 300 years of the Empire, amounts were reckoned in sesterces.
		Owing to the common use of milia sester-iium (for milia sestertiorum), it became customary to treat sestertium as a neuter singular, and to omit milia.
		Sestertium thus denotes a sum of 1,000 sesterces = (at 2'ld.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0582.html (700 words)

	Reading for Week 7, May 16, Augustus and the New Order of the State
		Dio 54.17.3 3He permitted all to stand for office who possessed property worth four hundred thousand sesterces and were eligible by the laws to hold office.
		This was the senatorial rating which he at first established; but later he raised it to one million sesterces.
		At first, as we have seen, the rating of senators had been fixed at four hundred thousand sesterces, because many of them had been stripped of their ancestral estates by the wars, and then, as time went on and men acquired wealth, it had been raised to one million sesterces.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~klio/hist307study/Senate.htm (273 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Haley, Baetica Felix
		A principal aim of this study is to justify the invocation, if only in a heuristic manner, of the expression ”middle stratum” or, alternatively, ”middle layer” in connection with the society of Baetica in the early and middle Principate.
		This book's concern is with wealth and income and their distribution: from this perspective, the ”middle stratum” in Baetica ought to encompass both the freeborn and ex-slaves, and refer indiscriminately to individuals with property ranging in value from 5,000 to 200,000 sesterces.
		Le Roux's figure, be it duly noted, is in line with Alföldy's estimate of a minimum decurional census of 20,000 sesterces in the small African municipia during the early Principate.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exhalbae.html (3160 words)

	EDICTUM AEDILICIUM DE RATIONE LUDORUM CIRCENSUM
		sesterces in support of the assassination will be announced and
		sesterces held and expended by each entrant and their computations
		Entrants may pool their sesterces for offence in a round; for
	www.novaroma.org /tabularium/edicts/aedile-2004-03-11.html (1182 words)

	Sestertius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name sestertius is a combination of semis, meaning half, and tres, meaning three, which when combined with an adjectival termination means three with the last equal half resulting in two and a half, the coin's original value in asses.
		In older English texts the French form sesterce is sometimes used.
		Sesterces are highly valued by numismatists, since their large size gave celators (engravers) a large area in which to produce detailed portraits and reverse types.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sestertius (417 words)

	A Fistful of "Sesterces"
		Of course, when you have as many sesterces as Crassus, the world is pretty much your oyster (and/or snail).
		If Spartacus raises fifty million sesterces to buy a boat ride for his troops, you can pay fifty million and one to keep the ships from showing up.
		The Rube did notice that the guy behind me kept repeating "sesterces" to himself every time it was said on screen, as if to be sure of remembering the pronunciation (ses tur sez).
	www.rovingrube.com /movie.reviews/spartacus.htm (1072 words)

	EDICTVM AEDILICIVM DE MVNERIBVS FERIAE QVINQVATRIAE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These faux-sesterces shall have no value outside the munera and ludi circenses of Nova Roma and may not be redeemed for real money or property of real value.
		Sesterces won by wagering on the munera may be used to support or defend aggainst dirty actions in the ludi circenses.
		The Quaestor of the Aedilis Curulis responsible for the feria shall record all wagers and with the aediles curules calculate odds and award and deduct sesterces from the account of each entrant on the basis of the outcome of wagers.
	www.novaroma.org /tabularium/edicts/aedile-2004-03-16.html (392 words)

	Hort 306 - READING 19-4
		And he is not mistaken in this; for, like a careful accountant, he sees, when his calculations are made, that this kind of husbandry is of the greatest advantage to his estate.
		per annum, amounting to 3480 sesterces for the 2-year period when the vineyards, in their infancy as it were, are delayed in bearing.
		This sum exceeds by one third the 2000 sesterces which we have named above as the cost of planting 1 iugerum of vines, and yet our own management has now progressed to the point where husbandmen are not averse to purchasing quicksets from me at a price of 600 sesterces a thousand.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/history/lecture19/r_19-4.html (1263 words)

	LXV
		Crinas of Massillia expended 10,000,000 sesterces in rebuilding the walls of that city.
		11,000,000 sesterces, though by no means a very rich man. He founded a library, a school, and a charity institute for poor children; also a temple to Ceres, with spacious porticoes to shelter tradespeople who came to the fair held in honor of that goddess.
		For on just one voyage I scooped in 10,000,000 sesterces and immediately started to redeem all the lands that used to be my master's.
	www.csuohio.edu /history/courses/wertheimerfall2004/Week3.htm (5222 words)

	Res Gestae Divi Augusti: "The Achievements of the Divine Augustus"
		The sum amounted to about 600,000,000 sesterces paid for lands in Italy, and about 260,000,000 disbursed for provincial lands.
		Of all those who founded military colonies in Italy or the provinces I was the first and only one to have done this in the recollection of my contemporaries.
		I built the theatre adjacent to the temple of Apollo on ground in large part bought from private owners, and provided that it should be called after Marcus Marcellus, my son-in-law.
	www.msu.edu /~rauk/resgestae.html (2961 words)

	The Escapist - Ain't Goin' Away Ever
		Their virtual economic model is a very simple one: Players purchase an account key, which comes with a small amount of game currency, to access
		Rather than a monthly fee, players can use their credit cards to purchase "sesterces," RV's in-game currency, if they need or want more money.
		Here's 10 sesterces.' It's a trickle-down economy." He laughs, adding, "Republicans all over the place will be happy."
	www.escapistmagazine.com /issue/40/6 (290 words)

	Roman Money, Weights and Measures
		with the value of 100,000 sesterces is used with the proper numeral adverb,
		dena HS = l0,000 sesterces (HS = sestertia).
		decies HS = 1,000,000 sesterces (HS = sestertium).
	ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /~paz/roman/rmoney.html (319 words)

	AUGUSTUS
		When I returned to Rome from Spain and Gaul in [13 B.C.] the Senate, to commemorate my return, ordered an Altar of the Augustan Peace [Ara Pacis Augustae] to be consecrated [12] in the Campus Martius, on which it decreed that the magistrates, priests, and Vestal Virgins should make an annual sacrifice [started 9 B.C.].
		In [5 B.C.] I gave 240 sesterces to each of 320,000 persons of the Urban Plebs.
		In [2 B.C.] I have 240 sesterces apiece to those of the Plebs who at that time were receiving public grain; the number involved was a little more than 200,000 persons.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~jnicols/hist414/notes_Octavian.htm (1262 words)

	John RAMSEY Mark AntonyÌs Attempt to Pack Roman Juries with his Supporters
		This paper examines the radical change made in the composition of juries in RomeÌs criminal courts when Mark Antony passed his lex iudicaria in Sept./Oct. 44 BC and established a third panel of jurors who were diehard Caesarians and did not have to meet the previous minimum census requirement of 400,000 sesterces.
		A hint of what that requirement may have been is provided by the recommendation purportedly made by Sallust to Caesar in 50 BC that jury service be extended to all members of the first census class (Second Epistle to Caesar 7.11).
		The property qualification for the prima classis was only an estimated 40,000 sesterces, and so, if jurors were drawn from that class, all ex-centurions would automatically have been in the pool because those veterans had received from Caesar bounties of 40,000 sesterces in 46 BC (App.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/RAMSEY.html (625 words)

	Règlement Legionnaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Le résultat en sesterces à l'épreuve de "La Question" est généralement disponible le lendemain de l'épreuve, mais peut prendre plusieurs jours pour être calculé, sans aucune limite sur le nombre de jours.
		Le résultat en sesterces à l'épreuve de "L'Assaut" est généralement disponible le lendemain de l'épreuve, mais peut prendre plusieurs jours pour être calculé, sans aucune limite sur le nombre de jours.
		Les sesterces pour chaque jeu sont crédités le jour où l'ordinateur serveur a la faculté de les calculer.
	www.monlegionnaire.com /reglement.htm (7781 words)

	WLGR
		A free-born Roman woman who has an estate of 20,000 sesterces, so long as she is unmarried, pays a hundredth part annually; and a freedwoman who has an estate of 20,000 sesterces pays the same until she marries.
		The inheritances left to Roman women possessing 50,000 sesterces, who are unmarried and childless, are confiscated.
		Romans who have more than 100,000 sesterces, and are unmarried and childless, do not inherit; those who have less, do.
	www.stoa.org /diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-romanlegal148.shtml (544 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.06.22
		Granius Ampliatus stipulated that he be rightly repaid in good coin the 5,000 sesterces in cash written above; I, P. Vergilius Ampliatus, solemnly promised.
		Granius Numenius as a pledge approximately 10+ pounds of silver, which is sealed with my seal, for the 5,000 sesterces in cash, which loans I received from him on this day by my chirograph ("per chirographum meum").
		If C. Marcius Saturninus ought to pay C. Sulpicius Cinnamus the 18,000 sesterces in question, let the judge C. Blossius Celadus condemn C. Marcius Saturninus to pay C. Sulpicius Cinnamus the 18,000 sesterces.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-06-22.html (1174 words)

	The Roman Empire: in the First Century. The Roman Empire. Social Order. Equestrians \| PBS
		The Emperor Augustus recognized the importance of the equestrians, reorganized them into a military class and encouraged others to join.
		Now Roman citizens of any social level could become equestrians, as long as they were of good reputation, in good health and owned at least 400,000 sesterces (Roman coins).
		By using equestrians in responsible positions in government, Augustus founded the imperial civil service, which equestrians would later head.
	www.pbs.org /empires/romans/empire/equestrians.html (388 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Res Gestae Divi Augusti, c. 14 CE
		I refused to be pontifex maximus in place of a colleague still living, when the people proffered me [that] priesthood which my father had held.
		The sum which I spent for Italian farms [for the veterans] was about 600,000,000 sesterces [Arkenberg: about $200,000,000 in 1998 dollars] and for lands in the provinces about 260,000,000 [Arkenberg: about $158,600,000 in 1998 dollars]....
		I built the Curia [Senate House], and the Chalcidicum adjacent thereunto, the temple of Apollo on the Palatine with its porticoes, the temple of the deified Julius [Caesar], the Lupercal, the portico to the Circus of Flaminius [and a vast number of other public buildings and temples].
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/14resgestae.html (1653 words)

	Roman Empire In Turmoil 180-285 by Sanderson Beck
		After Commodus was assassinated, Laetus and Eclectus took Helvius Pertinax, 66, to the praetorian camp, where he promised the guards a donative of 12,000 sesterces each.
		Pertinax was probably chosen, because he had held more high offices than anyone; he may have survived, because he had gained less wealth than anyone.
		City prefect Sulpicianus, father-in-law of Pertinax, aimed to take the throne; but he was outbid by the wealthy Didius Julianus, who promised the praetorian guards 25,000 sesterces and gave them 30,000 each, saying he would restore the honor of Commodus.
	www.san.beck.org /AB9-RomanTurmoil180-285.html (20213 words)

	Companion: Phily7.18: notes
		quingentis milibus nummum= 500,000 sesterces, a very generous gift, which is more than the minimum wealth needed to qualify for entrance into the equestrian class.
		This rental fee of 30,000 sesterces was about six per cent of 500,000 sesterces and it provided the funds annually for the support of the girls and boys of Comum.
		Pliny explains that he has paid out more to establish the fund than only the cost of the endowment for the children.
	www.cnr.edu /home/sas/araia/Pliny7.18_notes.html (287 words)

	The Codex Forums :: View topic - Roma Victor
		In other words if you spend £10 GBP purchasing §5,000 Sesterces during the Commercial Test (an exchange rate of 1:500) then, when the world is wiped at the end of the Commercial Test, your account will be credited with the current equivalent of £10 in Sesterces.
		Of course there will be those who choose the harder route of paying less, if anything and these players will have to work hard in the game in order to continue to survive and progress.
		And at the other end of the spectrum there will be those that spend much more when purchasing Sesterces so that they can buy extravagant properties, hire many NPC's and benefit from all the most expensive items and in-game services without necessarily having to spend days and weeks accruing these virtual assets.
	www.rpgcodex.com /phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=14225 (690 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Pliny the Younger: Letters, X.25 ff: The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the ...
		Sire, the people of Nicomedia spent 3,229,000 sesterces [Arkenberg: about $1,857,000 in 1998 dollars] upon an aqueduct, which was left in an unfinished state, and I may say in ruin, and they also levied taxes to the extent of 2,000,000 sesterces [Arkenberg: about $1,543,000 in 1998 dollars] for a second one.
		For he has asked me in his will to undertake as heir the division of his property, and after keeping 50,000 sesterces, hand over all the remainder to the free cities of Heraclea and Teos.
		He leaves it to my discretion whether I think it better to erect public works and dedicate them to your glory, or to start an athletic festival, to be held every five years, and to be called the "Trajan Games." I have decided to lay the facts before you and ask your decision.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/pliny-trajan1.html (1895 words)

	Multiplayer Online Games Directory / News / Roma Victor - Pre-order & Launch Announced - Find Multiplayer Games Here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first 1,500 accounts will be made available during a 'pre-order' phase, beginning on the Ides of December.
		Pre-order players and veteran testers of the VERM® (Virtual Economics Revenue Model) will be able to gain access to the game world on the Ides of March - a full 2-weeks in advance of the public offer.
		All testers that have spent any money in order to acquire sesterces during the test will have the virtual equivalent of their total contribution credited back into their virtual balance at the full launch of the game.
	www.mpogd.com /news/?ID=1845 (303 words)

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