ACCENSI, was also an appellation given to a kind of adjutants, appointed by the tribune to assist each centurion and decurion. In which sense, accensus is synonymous with optio.—In an ancient inscription, given by a Torre, we meet ACCENSUS EQUITUM ROMANORUM; an office no where else heard of. That author suspects it for a corruption; and instead thereof reads, A CENSIBUS.
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