sestertio

sestertio is a Latin form of sestertius, meaning “sesterce (a Roman coin; HS); (sestertium) a thousand sesterces”. It is the dative singular masculine noun or ablative singular neuter adjective or ablative singular masculine adjective or dative singular neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of sestertium, “a thousand sesterces”.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.2.5: … tatim sunt demoliti libentissimis omnibus. nobis superficiem aedium consules de consili sententia aestimarunt sestertio viciens, cetera valde inliberaliter, Tusculanam villam quingentis milibus, Formianum HS ducentis quinquaginta …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.19.7: … mancipiis; nam nec ipse usquam vinctos habeo nec ibi quisquam. Superest ut scias quanti videantur posse emi. Sestertio triciens, non quia non aliquando quinquagiens fuerint, verum et hac penuria colonorum et communi temporis ini …

All forms of sestertius (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.