Lex Aemilia
Lex Aemilia DE CENSORIBUS, passed by M. Aemilius when dictator, B.C. 433: it gave the censors, though elected at intervals of five years, only a year and a half instead of a whole lustrum for the discharge of their functions (e. g. holding the census and letting out the taxes and public works to farm), so that the state was without censors for intervals of three years and a half (Liv. 4.24, 9.33, 34; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsrecht, ii. p. 336).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.