Cato and others

Usage examples of censors.

Not so in Rome, where these censors are complete amateurs in business.

The censors in Rome announce to the bidders for contracts the terms the State requires.

He feels he can influence this pair of censors sufficiently to cause them to recall the Asia Province contracts, and reissue them.

Anyway, the Treasury eventually subsided, muttering, and the censors recalled the Asian contracts.

And it seems the censors agreed with my grandfather Cato the Censor, who maintained that his blood was noble enough to sanctify the blood of any slave.

According to Lucius Valerius, your new censors are worried that the system as it has always been practised overlooks a large group of rural citizens and Latins who are unwilling to bestir themselves to register.

By the time that the censors started seriously looking for their small army of clerks, the men who led the Italian Allies must be ready to act.

Quintus Servilius Caepio sought an interview with the consuls, Crassus Orator and Mucius Scaevola, and the censors, Antonius Orator and Valerius Flaccus.

Marcus Livius Drusus when the consuls and the censors came to see him.

Only one conversation occurred between me and Quintus Poppaedius on this subject, and that was many moons ago, when the censors were first elected.

It is not the intent of your consuls or your censors to ignore this aspect.

Everyone sang the praises of the censors, who might therefore have been thought to get on somewhat better together.

It is the censors admit new senators, and their choices cannot be argued with.

Perhaps thirty men sitting here today have been consuls, and some of them have been censors as well.

Cassius found himself with everything he had lent outstanding, no payments coming in, and the prospect of scrutiny by the new censors looming ever closer.