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Censorinus

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition  |  Date: 2008

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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