Censorinus
Censorinus (fl. AD 230) was a
Name
From its grammatical form, Censorinus is presumably his
Life
Little is known of Censorinus, although he lived during the 3rd century and apparently dedicated De Die Natali to his patron Quintus Caerellius as a birthday gift.[1]
Works
Censorinus was the author of a lost work De Accentibus as well as the surviving De Die Natali.[2]
De Die Natali
Legacy
A bright crater in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon has been named after him.
Notes
- ^ Sometimes—mistakenly—given as De Die Natale.
References
Citations
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "LacusCurtius • Censorinus — De Die Natali". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
Editions
- De Die Natali (in Latin), Bologna: Benedetto Faelli, 1497.
- Lindenbrog, Heinrich, ed. (1614), (in Latin)
{{citation}}: Missing or empty|title=(help). - Mangeart, J., ed. (1614), Sur le Jour Natal (in French), Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke.
- Jahn, Otto, ed. (1845), (in Latin)
{{citation}}: Missing or empty|title=(help). - Hultsch, Friedrich, ed. (1867), (in Latin)
{{citation}}: Missing or empty|title=(help). - Cholodniak, Ivan, ed. (1889), De Die Natali Liber ad Q. Caerellium (in Latin), St Petersburg: Russian Imperial Academy of Science.
- Maude, William, ed. (1900), De Die Natali ("The Natal Day"), New York: Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., omitting the first 11 chapters.
- Parker, Holt N., ed. (2007), Censorinus: The Birthday Book, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-09974-3.
- Brodersen, Kai, ed. (2012), Censorinus: Über den Geburtstag (in German), Darmstadt: WBG, ISBN 978-3-534-18154-4.
- Brodersen, Kai, ed. (2011), Censorinus: Das Geburtstagsbuch (in German), Darmstadt: Primus, ISBN 978-3-89678-752-1.
Bibliography
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Censorinus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 662.
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