RECENSIO, was an account taken by the censors, every lustum, of all the Roman people. It was a general survey; at which the equites, as well as the rest of the people, were to appear. New names were now put upon the censor's list, and old ones cancelled. The recensio, in short, was a more solemn and accurate sort of probatio, and answered the purpose of a review, by showing who were fit for military service.