Examples of using Sesterces in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Two thousand sesterces.
In the historical chronicles mentioned bet Cleopatra with Antony, the essence of which was the fact that she can easilyspend an amount equal to several hundred thousand sesterces per meal.
Five hundred sesterces!
There are a number of unverifiable stories about Cleopatra, of which one of the best known is that, at one of the lavish dinners she shared with Antony,she playfully bet him that she could spend ten million sesterces on a dinner.
Two million sesterces.
Over 1 00 estates have been burned… among them, gentlemen,my own… burned to the ground and three million sesterces lost.
The salary is 15 sesterces per week.
You are ridiculous with your mackerel for seven sesterces.
Price is 1 00,000 sesterces per ship.
For 500 ships that would be… 50 million sesterces.
Five hundred sesterces deposit on Varinia.
Mackerel seven sesterces!
Wealthy Romans kept lampreys and other fish in salt water pools.Tertullian reports that Asinius Celer paid 8000 sesterces for a particularly fine mullet. Cicero reports that the advocate Quintus Hortensius wept when a favored specimen died.[1] Rather cynically, he referred to these ancient fishkeepers as the Piscinarii, the"fish-pond owners" or"fish breeders", for example when saying that… the rich(I mean your friends the fish-breeders) did not disguise their jealousy of me.[2][3][4].
Even for 450 Sesterces?
There are a number of unverifiable but very famous stories about Cleopatra, of which one of the best known is that, at one of the lavish dinners she shared with Antony,she playfully bet him that she could spend ten million sesterces on a dinner.
Would half a million sesterces make you brave?
In spite of sickness and death,we will profit 1 1 ,000 sesterces!
Now you have to pay 15 sesterces rent per week.
If you were in Rome, you would sell these fish five sesterces each!
These slaves have already cost us a thousand million sesterces. If now they want to relieve us of their unwelcome presence… in the name of all the gods, let them go!
That will make 14 sesterces.
Upon retiring, a soldier of the Praetorians was granted 20,000 sesterces(5,000 denarii), a gift of land, and a diploma reading"to the warrior who bravely and faithfully completed his service.".
Pliny also complains,“There is no year in which India does notdrain the Roman Empire of 50 million sesterces,” and further moralizes on pepper.
Lictors were exempted from military service,received a fixed salary(of 600 sesterces, in the beginning of the Empire), and were organized in a corporation.
The balance of the 50 million sesterces we owe you.
The projectile used is a pimp seven sesterces of the highest quality.
Tiberius offered several retired gladiators 100,000 sesterces each to return to the arena.
Tertullian reports that Asinius Celer paid 8000 sesterces for a particularly fine mullet.