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The censorian judgments, although arbitrary and as a rule spontaneous, were sometimes elicited by prosecution: and an accuser was found to bring the conduct of Gracchus formally before the notice of the magistrates.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

The author does not sufficiently distinguish between the censorian initiative and the operation of the law.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

But I generally blame, to exert all the vigour of my censorian power, and keep my subjects in awe.

From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry