§635. Measures of Value, etc
In the statement of sums of money in Roman numerals, a line above the number indicates thousands; lines above and at the sides also, hundred-thousands. Thus HS DC=600 sēstertiī; HS DC= 600,000 sēstertiī, or 600 sēstertia; HS |DC|=60,000,000 sēstertiī, or 60,000 sēstertia.
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.