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CENSORINIYS

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 662 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Roman grammarian and See also:miscellaneous writer, flourished during the 3rd See also:century A.D. He was the author of a lost See also:work De Accentibus, and of an extant See also:treatise De See also:Die Natali; written in 238, and dedicated to his See also:patron See also:Quintus Caerellius as a birthday See also:gift. The contents are of a varied See also:character: the natural See also:history of See also:man, the See also:influence of the stars and genii, See also:music, religious See also:rites, See also:astronomy, the doctrines of the See also:Greek philosophers. The second See also:part deals with See also:chronological and mathematical questions, and has been of See also:great service in deter-See also:mining the See also:principal epochs of See also:ancient history. The whole is full of curious and interesting See also:information. The See also:style is clear and concise, although somewhat rhetorical, and the Latinity, for the See also:period, See also:good. The See also:chief authorities used were See also:Varro and Suetonius. Some scholars, indeed, hold that the entire work is practically an See also:adaptation of the lost Pratum of Suetonius. The fragments of a work De Natali Institutione, dealing with astronomy, See also:geometry, music and versification, and usually printed with the De Die Natali of Censorinus, See also:ate not by him: Part of the See also:original MS., containing the end of the genuine work, and the See also:title and name of the author of the fragment are lost. The only good edition with commentary is still that of H. Lindenbrog (1614) ; the most See also:recent See also:critical See also:editions are by O. See also:Jahn (1845), F.

Hultsch (1867), and J. Cholodniak (1889). There is an See also:

English See also:translation of the De Die Natali (the first eleven chapters being omitted) with notes by W. See also:Maude (New See also:York, 1900).

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