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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEMOIR OF CENSORINUS. ENSORINUS, in the only book we have from his pen, makes known to us only his country and the epoch in which he lived; all else must be drawn from conjecture. He was a Roman and he lived in the third century of the Christian sera. His surname of Censorinus. belongs to the Marcia family, one of the most ancient and illustrious of Rome, a circumstance which has induced some critics to identify him with this family; while others have thought that he bore the common praenomen of Caius. This family, originally plebian, had given to Rome, a king, praetors, consuls and generals. The particular branch of Censorinus owes its lustre to C. Marcius Rutilus, the first plebian censor of Rome, (A. U. 403) but especially to him, who when he was called for the second time to the supreme functions of the censorship (A. U. 488), censured the people in the forum, for having twice conferred upon him such power and who by his great qualities merited the surname of Censorinus. History cites after this, a curule aedile 2 who became consul with M. Manilius (A.U. 605), then censor (A.U. 606); an admiral,8 unfortunate in the war against Mith- ridates; an orator,4 celebrated during the youth time of Cicero; a senator distinguished by his eloquence, who courageously perished in the the famous defeat of Crassus by the Parthians; a praetor5 elevated by the favour of Marc Antonius to the consulate (A.U. 715) and finally he who was made consul' with C. Asinius Gallus (A.U. 746). This last named Censorinus was the friend of Caius Caesar, the son of Julia and grandson of Augustus, and a patron of the arts and poetry. Horace, who was one of the clients of Censorinus, and was ableto give him, for the anniversary of his birth, neither gold cup nor pictures, nor statuary, as was the usage, yet
| ISBN-13 | 9780217199247 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217199240 |
| Weight | 0.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 74 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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