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Censorinus (died 53 BC)
Censorinus (died 53 BC) was a friend and contemporary of Publius Crassus, son of the triumvir Marcus Crassus. His ''gens'' name was almost certainly Marcius, and he may have been the son of the Gaius Marcius Censorinus who was ''monetalis'' around 88 BC.〔Claude Eilers, "The Date of Augustus' Edict on the Jews (Jos. ''AJ'' 16.162–165) and the Career of C. Marcius Censorinus," ''Phoenix'' 58 (2004), p. 92.〕 If so, his father and uncle Lucius were staunch supporters of the popularist faction of Cinna.〔Michael Lovano, ''The Age of Cinna'' (Franz Steiner, 2002), ''passim'', limited preview (online. )〕
Censorinus is one of the two named friends of Publius Crassus who died with him at the Battle of Carrhae. Plutarch calls him "a man of senatorial dignity and a powerful speaker." During the battle, Censorinus is among those who ride with young Crassus on a last desperate cavalry foray; after sustaining heavy casualties, the Romans and their Gallic auxiliaries retreat to a sand dune, where hope is soon lost under the constant barrage of Parthian arrows. Wounded and with his sword-arm incapacitated, Crassus orders his shield-bearer to take his life. Censorinus does likewise, and dies at his side. Their friend Megabocchus and most of the other officers commit suicide.〔Plutarch, ''Crassus'' 25.3, 11–12.〕
This Censorinus is possibly also the young man who had accompanied Quintus Cicero to Asia, as mentioned in a letter written by Quintus's elder brother Marcus Cicero between 25 October and 10 December, 59 BC.〔Cicero, ''Ad Quintum fratrem'' 1.2.13; Eilers, "The Date of Augustus' Edict on the Jews … and the Career of C. Marcius Censorinus," p. 92. D.R. Shackleton Bailey notes in his commentary that the person in Cicero's letter could less likely be the Lucius Marcius Censorinus who was consul in 29 BC; he further doubts that all four illustrious young men listed would actually be part of Quintus's entourage.〕 He is named in the company of four other young ''nobiles'' who seemed willing to support Quintus if he were to be prosecuted as a result of his governorship. The others are an Antonius who is either the famous Marcus Antonius or one of his two brothers, Gaius or Lucius; Cassius Longinus and his brother Lucius; and Quintus Mucius Scaevola (tribune of the ''plebs'' in 54 BC). Other close members of the Censorinus family were supporters of Antonius as triumvir, and one of them, the consul of 39 BC, came into possession of Cicero's house on the Palatine after his death.〔According to Velleius Paterculus 2.14.3.〕
==See also==
* Marcius Censorinus
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