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Censor
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The term derives from the Latin censor, which itself is connected to the verb censere, meaning "to assess" or "to appraise." In the Roman Republic's, the two Censors' were annually elected magistrates holding significant imperium. Their duties went far beyond mere counting; they maintained the official register of citizens (census), determined property qualifications for military service and voting rights, and, crucially, held the Regimen Morum (Guardianship of Morals). [Roman Censors](/entries/r…
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Non Leap Year
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A standard non-leap year comprises exactly 365 calendar days. This total is equivalent to 8,760 hours, or 525,600 minutes. The fundamental difference between a common year and a leap year lies in the duration of February.
In a non-leap year, February has 28 days. This arrangement is believed to originate from the ancient Roman practice of intercalating an entire extra mensis (month) every few years, a system that proved overly complex, leading to the eventual standardization of the shorter February during the reign of…