office
Censor
censor
also: censors
The magistrate (elected in pairs) who held the census and supervised public morals; Crassus and Domitius as censors moved to close the rhetors' schools.
Reading notes
- A Dialogue on Oratory §35 censors
The paired magistrates who held the census and policed public morals.
- The Histories §1.9 censor
The magistrate (here Vitellius's father) charged with the census and oversight of public morals, a dignity of the old Republic revived occasionally under the principate.