Census MMDCCLXXVIII

NOVA ROMA CENSUS MMDCCLXXVIII

The goal of the census is to determine the accurate number of citizens who make up Nova Roma. This page is dedicated to the census of the year P. Aurelio C. Flavio cos. ‡ MMDCCLXXVIII a.u.c..

REGISTER FOR THE CENSUS:

Citizens who wish to register in this census online shall send an email, no later than 1 December, to the Census Office at the following address: novaromacensus@gmail.com

Census in Roma Antiqua

The census was a register of Roman citizens and of their property, first established by Servius Tullius, the fifth king of Rome. After the expulsion of the kings it was taken by the consules, until censores were appointed for the purpose of taking it in 443 B.C.

The census, the first and principal duty of the censors, for which the proper expression is censum agere (Liv. III. 3, 22, IV.8), was always held in the Campus Martius, and from the year B.C. 435 in a special building called Villa Publica, which was erected for that purpose by the second pair of censors, C. Furius Pacilus and M. Geganius Macerinus (Liv. IV.22; Varr. R. R. III.2). Learn more...

Census in Nova Roma

The legal basis for organizing the Census in Nova Roma consists of:

• Nova Roman constitution
• Lex Lucilia de censu
• General Census Information

The census is under the jurisdiction and responsibility of the Officium Censuale, the censors and their official staff serving during the year 2778 a.u.c.

Census 2778 Administration (2025)

The Nova Roma 2778 a.u.c census working team was composed of:

I. The Management of Officium Censorium (Office of the censors) that conducted the Census:

• M. Aurelius Cotta Iovius, censor
• C. Petronius Stephanus Turpilianus, censor
• Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, scriba primicerius officii censorii

II. The Officium Censuale (Census Office)

• Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, scriba censorius
• Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, praeco ad census
• D. Aurelius Ingeniarius, scriba censorious
• D. Aurelius Ingeniarius, praeco ad census

III. Cooperating Offices

• Officium Rei Informaticae: Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, curator; C. Amatius Structus, scriba C. Marcius Augustinus, praeco.
• Officium Administrationis Publicae: Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, praefectus; C. Marcius Augustinus, scriba.
• Officium Aerarii: T. Popillia Laenas, quaestrix.

Edict for the Opening of the Census:

• Forum Romanum #101722 a.d. V Id. Mai. ‡

For any question contact the Officium Censuale.

History Snapshot

Useful Information

Requirement for Registration
Certain citizens are considered already counted for the census. Citizens who do not have to respond are:

• Citizens who obtained citizenship after Id. Oct. Sex. Lucilio II A. Tullia II cos. (October 15, 2022).
• Citizens who have paid taxes for the current calendar year (P. Aurelio C. Flavio cos., 2025).
• Magistrates of the current calendar year and any current officers or priests of Nova Roma, excepting senators.

Proxy Registrations
Governors are entitled to obtain from censors their provincial citizens' data. Governors also have a remit to declare to the censors the activity, and therefore, an official response, on behalf of his or her province's citizens. Governors should take care to only respond on behalf of those citizens who have shown sufficient local activity in his or her province, where it would otherwise not be recorded. Misrepresenting the active status of citizens is harmful to Nova Roma and has flown-on effects to other areas of society and senate decision making.

If a citizen knows of an extended period of unavailability that will coincide with the census, the citizen can entrust a personal representative to register him or her on the census. The personal representative can be anyone the citizen selects, but this representative must produce evidence (for example an email) of being chosen as a citizen's representative for the census.

Failure to Register

Failure to register on the census is considered a dereliction of the one and only obligatory civic duty, and it involves all census points and civic rights in Nova Roma. Citizens who fail to register on the census will formally retain their citizenship or the type of their allied status, but their rights will be suspended. It will be possible for such citizens to register themselves later, between two censuses, at which time their rights will be reinstated, but their census points will be restored only partially and gradually.

Census activities

• Opening of the Census - a.d. VI Id. Mai. ‡: Edictum Censorium De Legibus Censui Censendo.
• Extension of the Census until Dec 1 - a.d. VI Id. Oct. ‡: Edictum Censorium De Modificatione Temporis Lustri
• Lustrum of the Census held concurrently with the Equus October Ceremony in Aquincum - a.d. XIV Kal. Nov. ‡: Equus October Ceremony And The Lustrum Of The Census
• Modifcation of the List of Public Equestrians - a.d. XIV Kal. Nov. ‡: Edictum Censorium De Probatione Et Recognitione Equitum
• Modifcation of the List of Senators - a.d. XIV Kal. Nov. ‡: Edictum Censorium De Lectione Senatus
• Ceremonial Closing of the Census and Purification of Nova Roma - a.d. XIV Kal. Nov. ‡: Lustrum P. Aurelio C. Flavio coss. MMDCCLXXVIII M. Aurelio Cotta Iovio et c. Petronio Stephano Turpiliano censoribus per eosdem censores R. P.
• Correction about the List of Senators - a.d. V Kal. Nov. ‡: Edictum Censorium De Lectione Senatus

CENSUS MMDCCLXXII REPORTS

The report will be released after the census has concluded.