Censor overview

Overview of "Censores"

Censores are very respected magistrates with the highest auctoritas but third in rank after the consules and praetores.

Censores in Roma Antiqua

The censores were two in number, elected from men of consular dignity, at a interval of five years (lustrum) and holding office for eighteen months. They ranked as magistratus maiores, but did not possess the imperium, and had no power to convene either the senate or an assembly of the people. The property registration, of which the censors had charge, was called census, and on it depended the position of a citizen in the centuriae.

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Censores in Nova Roma

One of the magistracies of Nova Roma. There are two censores Censores of year 2760 AUC:

• K. Fabius Buteo Modianus
• Ti. Galerius Paulinus

The domain of authority of the censores includes:

• approve new members (citizens) to Nova Roma.
• are usually the first magistrates new applicants meet, which means they field a variety of questions and inquiries.
• maintain the rolls of citizens, senators, ordo equester members.
• are guardians of public morality.
• maintain the database of century allocations, Tribal alignments and make sure the laws that are related to the allocations of citizens are properly enforced.
• issue voter codes to citizens of Nova Roma.
• approve, discipline, or remove senators of Nova Roma.
• handle the resignations of citizens and magistrates.

Selected links (Roma Antiqua)

• Roman magistrates: Censor
• Censura

Selected photo

Roman names from a monument in Newcastle.

Selected links (Nova Roma)

• Censor handbook
• Lex Fabia de censu
• Ordo Equester
• Census 2007 Report
• Census 2005 Report
• Addenda to the Census 2005 Report
• Census 2005 Recommendations
• Classification of magistracies

Past censores in Nova Roma

• Censores

Censores projects

Wiki projects

• Nova Roma Album Civium