Lustrum

[147] The Lustrum was a period of five years, at the end of which the census of the people was taken.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Carla, having recently read Robert Harris' "Lustrum", it struck me after reading that review that Hilary Mantel might have a touch of the Cicero syndrome- the inability to resist making an unnecessary smart-alec cutting remark followed by puzzlement that your dazzling wit has annoyed those it's aimed at rather than delighting them as much as it did you :

The Silver Pigs, by Lindsey Davis. Book review Carla 2009

"Lustrum" is the expiatory sacrifice that was offered every five years by the censors.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2009

Epist.c. vi, 20, 21.] [Footnote 146: A.U.C. 731.] [Footnote 147: The Lustrum was a period of five years, at the end of which the census of the people was taken.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

One of the guests at the party to launch Robert Harris's novel, Lustrum, last Thursday had been reading our TLS classics issue andhoped foran answer.

Cicero: the first life? 2009

The plot of Lustrum covers five years from Cicero's consulship in 63 BC when he triumphs over the state's enemies to the great man's pompous years, spent in obsession with status, expensive houses and wearisome retelling of the past.

Robert Harris's Cicero Two 2009

Peter Mandelson (a cat's-got-the-cream smiling guest at the launch, and the dedicatee of Lustrum) is one of his closest friends.

Christina Patterson: "A Writer Close to the Power Elite": Interview With Robert Harris 2009

One of the guests at the party to launch Robert Harris's novel, Lustrum, last Thursday had been reading our TLS classics issue andhoped foran answer.

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG 2009

The plot of Lustrum covers five years from Cicero's consulship in 63 BC when he triumphs over the state's enemies to the great man's pompous years, spent in obsession with status, expensive houses and wearisome retelling of the past.

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG 2009

For bibliography see H. Cherniss, Lustrum (1961), 340-82, and for recent discussion

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968