In the countryside, permissions to draw water from aqueducts for irrigation were particularly hard to get; the exercise and abuse of such rights were subject to various known legal disputes and judgements, and at least one political campaign; in the early 2nd century BC Cato tried to block all unlawful rural outlets, especially those owned by the landed elite - "Look how much he bought the land for, where he is channeling the water!" - during his censorship.
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The city's demand for water had probably long exceeded its local supplies by 312 BC, when the city's first aqueduct, the Aqua Appia, was commissioned by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus.
The magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until 351 BCE, when Gaius Marcius Rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor.
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Andrea Doria, the famous 16th Century Genoese admiral, was rewarded for his services to his city by getting the title of "perpetual censor"—inspired by, though not precisely identical with, the Roman one.
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At first, there was no law to prevent a person being censor twice, but the only person who was elected to the office twice was Gaius Marcius Rutilus in 265 BC.
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aes, "bronze" or "money" in its subsidiary sense of "poll tax") were a class of Roman citizens not included in the thirty tribes of Servius Tullius, and subject to a poll-tax arbitrarily fixed by the censor.
The player is granted various ranks, progressing through such titles as: Quaestor, Aedile, Censor, Tribune, Praetor and Consul.
Six held consulships in the period from 261 BC to 86 BC; one also held a censorship.