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He stood barefoot in the Forum at dawn, not to plead but to inspect—measuring the width of senators’ togas, sniffing the wool of their cloaks for moth damage, tallying how many slaves each brought to public assembly. As Censor, he didn’t legislate; he *graded* Rome’s moral soil like a farmer testing pH before sowing. He expelled two senators for owning too many silver cups and one for riding in a covered litter—'a luxury that softens the spine and clouds the judgment.' His censorial lists weren’t records but verdicts: names struck not for treason, but for laziness in tending vines, for serving imported cheese instead of home-curdled pecorino, for letting the Sabine road crumble while building marble baths. He rewrote the census not as data, but as discipline—assigning citizens to tribes by landholding, virtue, and manure yield per acre. When he banned Greek philosophers from Rome, it wasn’t dogma—it was pest control: he’d watched how easily fine words rot the roots of duty.
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