CENSUS Eques, the estate or patrimony of a knight, rated at four hundred thousand sesterces, which was required to qualify a person for that order, and without which no virtue or merit was available.
CENSUS was also used for a person worth an hundred thousand sesterces, or who was entered as such in the censial tables, on his own declaration. In which sense, census amounts to the same with classicus, or a man of the first class; though Gellius limits the estate of those of this class to an hundred and twenty-five thousand asses. By the Voconian law, no census was allowed to give by his will above a fourth part of what he was worth to a woman.
CENSUS was also used to denote a tax or tribute imposed on persons, and called also capitation. See CAPITE CENSI.