Kent says High suffered censorial woes because of the shift in thinking at the time. |
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The censorship was instituted in 443 bc and discontinued in 22 bc, when the emperors assumed censorial powers. |
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The laws and censorial actions ultimately could not restrain changes in Roman mores. |
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One is left with the suspicion that once a particular media power becomes censorial, it has ambitions to become a political power itself. |
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Scipio carried out his censorial duties with sternness, in the spirit of the censorship of Cato, who had lived just long enough to express approval of Scipio's African command. |
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In 46 BC, Caesar was given censorial powers, which he used to fill the senate with his own partisans. |
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The dark side of his censorial power involved a restriction in freedom of speech, and an increasingly oppressive attitude toward the Roman Senate. |
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