By Konstantine Panegyres
LiveScience.com, New York
Sunday, January 18, 2026
"All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments," proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (first to second century A.D.), the Roman poet.
Today 20,000 sesterces would be equivalent to about [Australian] $300,000 in interest from investments. Anyone would be very happy with this much passive annual income.
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Like people today, people in ancient times understood that investing money could help them consolidate and grow their wealth.
As the Roman novelist Petronius (first century A.D.) wrote:
Whoever has money sails with a fair breeze, and governs his fortune as he wishes.
So how exactly did ancient people invest their money? ...
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