TY - JOUR AU - Tarwacka, Anna PY - 2018/06/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - THE CENSORS’ INFLUENCE ON MARRIAGE IN REPUBLICAN ROME JF - Zeszyty Prawnicze JA - zp VL - 18 IS - 1 SE - Artykuły DO - 10.21697/zp.2018.18.1.09 UR - https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/zp/article/view/2444 SP - 173-191 AB - <p><span class="fontstyle0">The office of censor was one of the institutions guaranteeing the stability of the socio-political system of Republican Rome. The censors supervised public morality and promoted population growth. In this connection they encouraged citizens to contract marriage and raise children. Their chief instruments of pressure were the orations they made during the </span><span class="fontstyle2">contiones</span><span class="fontstyle0">. But sometimes they resorted to more stringent measures, such as administering a censorial note or granting rewards to men who fathered many offspring.</span></p> ER -