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1. census, a, um, Part., from 1. censeo.

2. census, ūs, m. [1. censeo].

  1. I. A registering and rating of Roman citizens, property, etc., a census; cf. Liv. 1, 42, 5; Dig. 50, 15, and the compendiums referred to under censor: habere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 131: agere, Liv. 3, 22, 1; 40, 46, 8; Suet. Aug. 27; id. Tib. 21: facere, Gell. 10, 28, 1: censere, cf. censeo: censu prohibere, to refuse one admittance into the lists of citizens, Cic. Sest. 47, 101; so, censu excludere, Liv. 45, 15, 4: manumissio censu, i. e. when a slave was enrolled in the census at the request of his master, Just. Inst. 1, 5, 1.
    Hence,
  2. II. Meton.
    1. A. The register of the census, the censor’s lists, P. Afr. ap. Gell. 7, 11, 9; Cic. Balb. 2, 5; id. Arch. 5, 11; id. Cael. 32, 78; Liv. 39, 44, 2; Dig. 50, 15, 4; 22, 3, 10.
    2. B. The registered property of Roman citizens: census senatorum (800,000 sesterces), Suet. Aug. 41; id. Vesp. 17: census equester (400,000 sesterces), id. Caes. 33; id. Aug. 40; cf. Juv. 14, 326.
    3. C. Wealth, riches, property, possessions, in gen. ( = divitiae, opes): homo egens, sine censu, Cic. Fl. 22, 52; so Hor. C. 2, 15, 13; id. S. 2, 3, 324; Ov. F. 1, 217; id. M. 3, 588; 8, 846; Plin. 14, prooem. § 5; Tac. A. 2, 37; Suet. Ner. 38; 44 al.: exiguus, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 43: tenuis, id. ib. 1, 7, 56: opimo onerare digitos, Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 22.
      Poet., = pretium, munera, rich presents, gifts, Ov. M. 7, 739.
      1. 2. Trop.: censu Tullius oris (by eloquence) Emeritus caelum, Manil. 1, 792; cf. id. 1, 12; 3, 71.