[1017] ib. Ep. lix. “Q. Pompeius Q. Metellus tunc primum utrique ex plebe facti censores lustrum condiderunt.”
[1018] Messala ap. Gell. xiii. 15, 4.
[1019] Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii 11, 26 “majores de singulis magistratibus bis vos sententiam ferre voluerunt: nam cum centuriata lex censoribus ferebatur, cum curiata ceteris patriciis magistratibus, tum iterum de eisdem judicabatur.”
[1020] Messala ap. Gell. xiii. 15.
[1021] Polybius (vi. 53) says that the imago of the censor at a funeral was clad in purple. As all the insignia of the other magistrates that he mentions are those of their lifetime, this should be true of the censors. Perhaps the complete purple was worn for certain ceremonial purposes. Mommsen (Staatsr. i. pp. 411 and 446) thinks they were only buried in it.
[1022] ἁρχὴ ἀνυπεύθυνος (Dionys. xix. 16).
[1023] Liv. xxix. 37; Val. Max. vii. 2, 6.
[1024] Ascon. in Pison. p. 9.
[1025] Hence the helplessness of the tribune against censorial animadversion. Cf. Liv. xliv. 16 “multis equi adempti, inter quos P. Rutilio, qui tr. pl. eos violenter accusarat: tribu quoque is motus et aerarius factus.”
[1026] Cic. ad Att. iv. 9, 1.