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CENSIO

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ncluded both the rating or valuing a man's estate, and the imposing mulcts and penalties.

**CENSIO hastaria,** a punishment inflicted on a Roman soldier for some offence, as laziness or luxury, whereby his hasta or spear was taken from him, and consequently his wages and hopes of preferment stopped.

**CENSITUS,** a person censed, or entered in the census tables. See CENSUS.

In an ancient monument found at Ancyra, containing the actions of the emperor Octavius, we read,

*Quo lustro civium Romanorum* *Censita sunt capita quadrages.* *Centum millia et sexaginta tria.*