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censores

censores is a Latin form of censor, meaning “censor (Roman magistrate who held the census and supervised morals)”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 138 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.107: … Voconium, qui lege sua hereditatem ademit nulli neque virgini neque mulieri: sanxit in posterum, qui post eos censores census esset, ne quis heredem virginem neve mulierem faceret.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.20.11: Item aliud refert Sabinus Masurius in septimo Memoriali severe factum: Censores, inquit, Publius Scipio Nasica et Marcus Popilius cum equitum censum agerent, equum nimis strigosum et male h …

All forms of censor (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.