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Attaining the censorship would thus be considered the crowning achievement of a Roman politician on the cursus honorum. However, the magistracy as a regular office did not survive the transition from the Republic to the Empire. The censor's regulation of public morality is the origin of the modern meaning of the words censor and censorship. [2]
Initially, censors were chosen exclusively from among Roman citizens of patrician birth. In 332 BC, Quintus Publilius Philo was elected the first Plebeian censor [clarification needed] after legislation – that he introduced while dictator – providing one censor of each two must be a plebeian.
Lucius Papirius Cursor (censor in 272 BC) Lucius Papirius Mugillanus (consul 427 BC) Marcus Perperna (consul 92 BC) Marcus Popillius Laenas (consul 173 BC) Marcus Postumius Albinus Regillensis; Aulus Postumius Albinus (consul 242 BC) Aulus Postumius Albinus Luscus; Spurius Postumius Albinus Caudinus
The executive magistrates of the Roman Republic were officials of the ancient Roman Republic (c. 510 BC – 44 BC), elected by the People of Rome.Ordinary magistrates (magistratus) were divided into several ranks according to their role and the power they wielded: censors, consuls (who functioned as the regular head of state), praetors, curule aediles, and finally quaestor.
After a term as consul, the final step in the cursus honorum was the office of censor. This was the only office in the Roman Republic whose term was a period of eighteen months instead of the usual twelve. Censors were elected every five years and although the office held no military imperium, it was considered a great honour. The censors took ...
Each Roman magistrate was vested with a degree of power. [3] Dictators (a temporary position for emergencies) had the highest level of power. After the Dictator was the Consul (the highest position if not an emergency), and then the Praetor, and then the Censor, and then the curule aedile, and finally the quaestor. Each magistrate could only ...
Consul, Censor, Aedilis hic fuit apud vos. Hic cepit Corsicam Aleriamque urbem dedit tempestatibus aedem merito votam. A translation is: [4] Romans for the most part agree, that this one man, Lucius Scipio, was the best of good men. He was the son of Barbatus, Consul, Censor, Aedile. He took Corsica and the city of Aleria.
In addition, after the consulship had been opened to the plebeians, the plebs acquired a de facto right to hold both the Roman dictatorship and the Roman censorship [6] since only former consuls could hold either office. 356 BC saw the appointment of the first plebeian dictator, [13] and in 339 BC the plebeians facilitated the passage of a law ...