In
Censorinus' De Die Natali, where we find an early version of this definition: "Igitur musica est scientia bene modulandi: haec autem est in voce: sed vox alias gravior mittitur, alias acutior." (40) Here,
Censorinus' attention focuses on voice, and bene modulandi only indicates good measuring sound of higher or lower pitch.
Compare
Censorinus, 4.7 (G.Axr.38); Plutarch, Symposium, 730e (G.Axr.39).
Crater Timing Predictions ENTRANCES EXITS Feature UT Feature UT Grimaldi 1:11 Grimaldi 3:31 Aristarchus 1:15 Billy 3:33 Billy 1:18 Campanus 3:37 Kepler 1:18 Tycho 3:38 Pytheas 1:25 Kepler 3:43 Copernicus 1:26 Aristarchus 3:45 Timocharis 1:28 Copernicus 3:51 Plato 1:30 Pytheas 3:53 Campanus 1:31 Timocharis 3:58 Aristoteles 1:38 Plato 4:04 Eudoxus 1:39 Manilius 4:05 Manilius 1:39 Dionysius 4:06 Menelaus 1:42 Menelaus 4:08 Tycho 1:43
Censorinus 4:11 Dionysius 1:45 Plinius 4:11 Plinius 1:46 Eudoxus 4:11
Censorinus 1:53 Aristoteles 4:12 Proclus 1:55 Goclenius 4:12 Taruntius 1:57 Langrenus 4:16 Goclenius 2:00 Taruntius 4:18 Langrenus 2:05 Proclus 4:20
Taking into account, however, that its most pointed self-definition as a libellus non tam diserte quam fideliter scriptus is found--of all places--in the biography of the fictitious emperor
Censorinus, (81) the Historia Augusta exposes its own disingenuousness, colluding with the sophisticated reader that it wants to be seen primarily as a literary work with historical contents.
After Rome disarmed the Carthaginians in 149, the consul
Censorinus commanded them to more 10 miles from the sea, 'for we are resolved to raze your city to the ground'.
Relocation answers that demand, and the consul
Censorinus, in
(5.) In the two most extensive treatises on chronology surviving from antiquity, the natural day is defined as tempus ab oriente sole ad solis occasum "the time from sunrise to sunset" (
Censorinus, De die natali XXIII) and [LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] "the time from sunrise to sunset" (Geminus, Introduction to the Phaenomena VI.1).
Their quality ranges from Proclus's provocative commentary on Timaeus's plan to
Censorinus's superstitious speculation on birthdays.