CENOMANI, ce-no-nerr-ni, a Gaulish people settled in the district of Verona and Mantua. CENSORES, cen-el-res, two Roman magis trates, whose office (Cewei'ra) was first insti tuted 443 B.C. they numbered the people, estimated the wealth of each citizen, drew up the lists of electors and of the Senate, regu lated the taxes, and watched over the manners of the people. They could expel from the senate by removing the offender's name from the list of members. The first Census was held by King Servius Tullius on his reform of the constitution, and the duty devolved on the consuls after the expulsion of the kings, till the creation of Censors, 443 B.c. Plebeians were made eligible in 351. The Censors held their office for five years ; every fifth year they made a census in the Campus Martlus, and made a solemn lustration in the name of all the Roman people t this space of time was called a Lustrum (five years), and became a common mode of computing time. The ex
tensive powers of the Censors were curtailed by a law passed by Mamercus &mains, 433 n.c., to limit the actual tenure of the office to eighteen months, while the election continued for five years, as formerly. After the second Punic war the Censors were chosen from those who had been consuls, and their office was more honourable than that of the consuls. When one of the Censors died, the other at once resigned, and no new ones were elected for the remaining part of the five years : this arose from the ill-omened death of a Censor before the sacking of Rome by Brennus. The emperors took upon themselves the office of Censors.
CENSORINUS,APP.CL.,cen-sd-re-nus. x.Was, after many services to the state, compelled to assume the imperial purple by his soldiers, who murdered him some days after, A.D. 270. 2. A grammarian of the third century ; wrote De Die Natoli (extant).