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After a term as consul, the final step in the Cursus Honorum was the office of censor.
It was this authority of the Roman censors which eventually developed into the modern meaning of " censor " and " censorship "— i. e., officials who review published material and forbid the publication of material judged to be contrary to " public morality " as the term is interpreted in a given political and social environment.
When Grillparzer met the censor responsible, he asked him what was objectionable about the work.
Their father was the elderly Tiberius Gracchus major or Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who was tribune of the plebs, praetor, consul and censor.
Shortly before his assassination, the Senate named him censor for life and Father of the Fatherland, and the month of Quintilis was renamed July in his honor.
He was the homonymous and thus presumably the eldest son of Marcus Antonius Creticus ( praetor 74 BC, proconsul 73 – 71 BC ) and grandson of the noted orator Marcus Antonius ( consul 99 BC, censor 97 – 6 BC ) who had been murdered during the Marian Terror of the winter of 87 – 6 BC.
Antony's mother, Julia, was a daughter of Lucius Caesar ( consul 90 BC, censor 89 BC ).
" Although its avantgarde character, according to the student strike organizers, was a threat to the " higher aims of the strike ", and notwithstanding attempts by the strike committee to censor it, the gazette became rapidly very popular among the students.
This was also helped by the Journalists Union, which by March 1968 had already convinced the Central Publication Board, the government censor, to allow editors to receive uncensored subscriptions for foreign papers, allowing for a more international dialogue around the news.
In 1838, he moved to Paris after the Italian censor objected to the production of Poliuto ( on the grounds that such a sacred subject was inappropriate for the stage ); there he wrote La fille du régiment, which became another success.
Marcus Licinius Crassus was the second of three sons born to the eminent senator and vir triumphalis P. Licinius Crassus ( consul 97, censor 89 BC ).
In 65 BC, Crassus was elected censor with another conservative Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( Capitolinus ), himself son of a consul.
It is no surprise that, after his term as censor, Appius Claudius became consul twice, subsequently held other offices, and was a respected consultant to the state even during his later years.
In Freud's original formulation the latent dream-thought was described as having been subject to an intra-psychic force referred to as " the censor "; in the more refined terminology of his later years, however, discussion was in terms of the super-ego and " the work of the ego's forces of defense.
In 251, when Decius revived the censorship with legislative and executive powers so extensive that it practically embraced the civil authority of the emperor, Valerian was chosen censor by the Senate, though he declined to accept the post.
Or perhaps he was afraid of the Lord Chamberlain, Her Majesty's official censor whose duties were abolished in 1968.
A sort of register of news was kept in a journal of the salon, starting in 1762, which dealt largely in scandals and contained accounts of books suppressed by the censor.
After the attack was determined to have originated in China, the company stated that it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit the country altogether.
At the time, Piave and Verdi had titled opera La maledizione ( The Curse ), and this unofficial title was used by Austrian censor De Gorzkowski in an emphatic letter written in December 1850 in which he definitively denied consent to its production calling it " a repugnant of immorality and obscene triviality.
It was constructed in 312 BC by Appius Claudius Caecus, the same Roman censor who also built the important Via Appia.
Once he assumed the full office in 1610, Buck clearly was the primary censor for public drama.

censor and officer
While stopping at the imperial messenger post at Fushui ( 敷水, in modern Weinan, Shaanxi ), Yuan got into a dispute with an imperial eunuch messenger — variously reported as either Liu Shiyuan ( 劉士元 ) ( by the Book of Tang ) or Qiu Shiliang ( by the New Book of Tang ), in which the eunuch, as a result of the dispute, hit Yuan's face and injured him — Emperor Xianzong ruled that Yuan had overstepped his authorities as censor and demoted him to serve as the logistics officer at Jiangling Municipality ( 江陵, in modern Jingzhou, Hubei ), despite defenses submitted on his behalf by Li Jiang, Cui Qun, and Bai.

censor and ancient
* Gaius Marcius Rutilus-first plebeian dictator and censor of ancient Rome, fourth century BC
Gaius Marcius Rutilus ( also seen as " Rutulus ") was the first plebeian dictator and censor of ancient Rome, and consul four times.
During World War II the magazine evaded the censor largely by producing a series of articles on the Peloponnesian and similar ancient wars as a cover for the Party's opposition to the current one.
In ancient Rome, it was also a term for the magistrate called a censor ( in the original sense, rather than the later politicized evolution ), who castigated in the name of the pagan state religion but with the authority of the ' pious ' state.

censor and Rome
For the Rome premiere on 9 February 1868 at the Teatro Apollo, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Papal censor changed the Inquisitor into a Gran Cancelliere ( Grand Chancellor ) and the Monk / Emperor into a Solitario ( Recluse ).
In 312 BC, Appius Claudius Caecus became censor at Rome.
* Basilica Porcia: first basilica built in Rome ( 184 BC ), erected on the personal initiative and financing of the censor Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Elder ) as an official building for the tribunes of the plebs
* Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul, censor and father of Marcus Licinius Crassus ( killed by Marians invading Rome )
* The oldest known basilica, the Basilica Porcia, is completed in Rome by Cato the Elder during the time he is censor.
* Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus is elected censor in Rome.
* The Roman censor, Appius Claudius Caecus, a patrician, enters office and begins construction of the Appian Way ( the Via Appia ) between Rome and Capua.
During his term as censor, he built the Appian Way (), an important and famous road between Rome and Capua, as well as the first aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Appia.
He was not chosen as censor despite standing in both the elections of 189 and 184, a failure marking the decline of the influence of the Scipiones in Rome.
After occupying the positions of procurator of the Jesuits at Rome and censor ( calificador ) of the Spanish Inquisition at Madrid, Acuña returned to South America, where he died, probably soon after 1675.
For the opera's first production in Rome, three months after the Milan premiere, the plot had to be cleared of any direct religious connotations by order of the papal censor.

censor and who
Infused with the surrealistic satire that characterized the young Fellini ’ s work at Marc ’ Aurelio, the film ridiculed a crusader against vice who goes insane trying to censor a billboard of Anita Ekberg espousing the virtues of milk.
" According to some records, the original seventh letter, ⟨ z ⟩, had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewhat earlier in the 3rd century BC by the Roman censor Appius Claudius, who found it distasteful and foreign.
In Tunisia, where censorship is reportedly severe, people have become aware of the nature of the fake 404 errors and have created an imaginary character named " Ammar 404 " who represents " the invisible censor ".
The road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars.
The Cambridge cryptographer Ross Anderson has great concerns that " TC can support remote censorship [...] In general, digital objects created using TC systems remain under the control of their creators, rather than under the control of the person who owns the machine on which they happen to be stored ( as at present ) [...] So someone who writes a paper that a court decides is defamatory can be compelled to censor it — and the software company that wrote the word processor could be ordered to do the deletion if she refuses.
* Gaius Duilius Nepos, the Roman commander who has won a major naval victory over the Carthaginians is made censor with Lucius Cornelius Scipio.
Thus, if a censor uses this method to intercept messages, he or she may then let the letter be sent to the intended recipient who will be unaware that the secret message has already been intercepted by a third party.
Around the year 318 BC, the " Ovinian Plebiscite " ( plebiscitum Ovinium ) gave this power to another Roman magistrate, the censor, who retained this power until the end of the Roman Republic.
Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels, who was in effect the official censor of the time to Queen Elizabeth I, lived in Leatherhead's Mansion House.
In 1869, Cambridge University altered its statutes to allow men who were not members of a college to become members of the University under the supervision of a censor, whose office was in Trumpington Street, opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum.
With the aid of friends, especially of Diderot and Mme d ' Épinay, who reviewed many plays, always anonymously, during his temporary absences from France, Grimm himself carried on the Correspondence littéraire, which consisted of two letters a month that were painstakingly copied in manuscript by amanuenses safely apart from the French censor in Zweibrücken, just over the border in the Palatinate, until 1773.
* Worthington Clotman, SNLs resident network censor, based on real-life network censor Bill Clotworthy, who would interrupt sketches and point out objectionable material
# Domitia of the Ahenobarbi, who was mother of his homonymous son Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( consul 78, censor 65 BC ).
One of the chief objects of Saturninus's hatred was Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, who, when censor, endeavoured to remove Saturninus from the Senate on the ground of immorality, but his colleague refused to assent.
::: who was consul, censor, and aedile among you,
* Tiberius Claudius Asellus, an eques who was deprived of his horse and reduced to the condition of an aerarian by the censor Scipio Aemilianus in 142 BC ; he was subsequently restored by Scipio's colleague, Lucius Mummius, and as tribunus plebis in 140 he accused Scipio.
( The censor ) thought this might hurt the feelings of people who own and operate cemeteries.
In response, NPR further stated that according to Gore, she " wasn't out to censor the objectionable material " and quoted her as stating that she is " a strong believer in the First Amendment " who is calling for greater " consumer information in the marketplace.

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