Censorinus , fl. c.238, Roman grammarian. He wrote De die natali [on the day of birth], an essay partly astrological, partly chronological, which affords much information on ancient methods of computing time.
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Notes; 6/1/1994; Barlow, Jon; 2077 words;
... ben Haim, Alphonse Toussenel, Peter Singer). Their quality ranges from Proclus's provocative commentary on Timaeus's plan to Censorinus's superstitious speculation on birthdays. Taken together, they make the case for close study of a tradition whose polythetic ...
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The date of death of Jesus of Nazareth.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2002; Depuydt, Leo; 11425 words;
... surviving from antiquity, the natural day is defined as tempus ab oriente sole ad solis occasum the time from sunrise to sunset (Censorinus, De die natali XXIII) and [LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] the time from sunrise to sunset (Geminus, Introduction to the ...
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Vergilius Redivivus: Studies in Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; 1/1/2005; Haan, Estelle; 61179 words;
... Addison's lines. In Horace, the speaker informs his addressee, Censorinus, that he would present his friends with bronze (aera [2 ... directive of 31 October 1702 proclaimed: The Queen has received news from the Duke of Ormond and Sir George Rooke that the fleet ... November 1702): "On the 21th [sic] Mr Stanhope ...
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Lucretius' Erotic Mother: Maternity as a Poetic Construct in De Rerum Natura.(Critical Essay)
Helios; 3/22/1999; Clayton, Barbara; 8226 words;
... Lucretius must insist upon the literal historical reality of the end of the earth, and thus of its beginning as well. According to Censorinus, the idea that primitive earth developed wombs out of which emerged the first humans belongs to Epicurus (Bailey 1453). Bailey ...
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Books received.
Antiquity; 6/1/2007; Hummler, Madeleine; 3697 words;
... in the Roman World. 160 pages, 43 illustrations. 2007. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4098-9 paperback 16.99 [pounds sterling]. CENSORINUS, translated by HOLT N. PARKER. The Birthday Book. xiv+102 pages. 2007. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0226-099 ...
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