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Updated: June 28, 2025
Ask your learned men that. I reckon as they tell me. But you may think that these feasts were made only by great men, by triumphant generals, like Lucullus, who had plundered all Asia to help him in his housekeeping. What will you say when I tell you that the player AEsopus had one dish that cost him 6,000 sestertia that is, 4,843 pounds 10s. English? Darteneuf. What will I say?
Two hundred thousand sestertia were thought to have been represented in the house. The speaker was the well-known Mark Tully, Eq., the subject Old Age. Mr. The lecture consisted of an imaginary dialogue between Cato and Laelius. All want to reach old age, says Cato, and grumble when they get it; therefore they are donkeys.
"Well nine sestertia to three be it so! What! again Lydon. He stops he gasps for breath. By the gods, he is down! No he is again on his legs. Brave Lydon! Tetraides is encouraged he laughs loud he rushes on him." "Fool success blinds him he should be cautious. Lydon's eye is like a lynx's!" said Clodius, between his teeth. "Ha, Clodius! saw you that? Your man totters!
His appearance brought him instant commendation; and more particularly did the prætorian captain break forth into expressions of appreciation. 'A proper dwarf! a most excellent dwarf! Smaller and more ugly by a quarter than one which I have known to be sold for forty sestertia! And see, Bassus, how he bows and rubs his hands and shows his teeth at yourself.
Both declared that they were ready themselves to do all that he asked of them, believing that a man so holy could not ask for deeds inconsistent with the teaching of Christ. Chilo assured them that that was true, and, raising his eyes to heaven, he seemed to be praying; in fact, he was thinking whether it would not be well to accept their proposal, which might save him a thousand sestertia.
Thou art doing ill not to trust in me, for, setting aside my keenness, remember that there is a question of two other things, of my life, and the reward which thou has promised me." "How much dost thou need?" "A thousand sestertia, for turn attention to this, that I must find honest ruffians, men who when they have received earnest money, will not take it off without a trace.
Already I have exceeded my limit by five hundred sestertia. I dare do no more. Let her go." "Don't vex yourself, Saturius," said the auctioneer, "bidding is one thing, paying another. At present I have a bona-fide bid of fifteen hundred from you. Unless this liberal but unknown lady is prepared with the cash I shall close on that. Do you understand, madam?"
Berbix raised his buckler to shield himself, and his quick-eyed antagonist, suddenly lowering his weapon, pierced him through the breast. Berbix reeled and fell. "Nobilior! Nobilior!" shouted the populace. "I have lost ten sestertia," said Clodius, between his teeth. "Habet!"
With a great helmet on his head, and in mail which formed a ridge in front of his powerful breast and behind, he looked in the gleam of the golden arena like a giant beetle. The no less famous retiarius Calendio came out against him. Among the spectators people began to bet. "Five hundred sestertia on the Gaul!" "Five hundred on Calendio!" "By Hercules, one thousand!" "Two thousand!"
Another would have told thee that he had drunk ten cantars of the best wine with Ursus before he wormed the secret out of him; another would have told thee that he had lost a thousand sestertia to him in scriptoe duodecim, or that he had bought the intelligence for two thousand; I know that thou wouldst repay me doubly, but in spite of that, once in my life I mean, as always in my life I shall be honest, for I think, as the magnanimous Petronius says, that thy bounty exceeds all my hopes and expectations."
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