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censōrĭus , a, um, adj. censor,
I.of or pertaining to the censor, censorial: “tabulae,” the lists of the censor, Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 4: “lex,” a contract for leasing buildings, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55, § 143; public revenues, id. Prov. Cons. 5, 12; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 12, § 35 (the same: “locatio,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 12); sometimes, also, the order, decisions of the censor (concerning the divisions of the people, taxes, public buildings, etc.), id. Rab. Perd. 5, 15; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16: “edictum (de rhetoribus Latinis),” Suet. Rhet. 1: “severitas,” Cic. Clu. 46, 129; cf. id. Pis. 5, 10: “animadversio atque auctoritas,” id. Clu. 42, 117 and 119; cf. “animadversio,” id. ib. 46, 129 fin.: “nota,” Liv. 24, 18, 9; Quint. 5, 11, 13; 5, 13, 32 (cf. Cic. Clu. 46, 129: censoriae severitatis nota): opus, a fault or crime which was followed by the punishment of the censor, Cic. de Or. 2, 90, 367; Suet. Caes. 41; Gell. 4, 12, 1; 14, 7, 8; “for which also, probrum,” Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 10; “but censorium opus,” the punishment inflicted by the censor, Col. 12, praef. fin.: “homo,” any one who had been censor, Cic. de Or. 2, 90, 367.—Hence, Cato Censorius, Quint. 12, 1, 35.—
II. Trop., rigid, severe: “gravitas,” Cic. Cael. 15, 35: “virgula,” Quint. 1, 4, 3: “lima,” Mart. 5, 80, 12.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 1.1.12
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 42.117
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 46.129
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.3.12
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 1.2.4
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 5.10
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.143
    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 15.35
    • Cicero, On the Consular Provinces, 5.12
    • Cicero, For Rabirius on a Charge of Treason, 5.15
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 41
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.90
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 18.10
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 24, 18
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 4.3
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 11.13
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 13.32
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 14.7.8
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 4.12.1
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