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quaestor

NOUN
  1. any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)

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  • Well, in view of the fact that there is a slave part in it, I shall do just as I said and make it tragi-comedy. nunc hoc me orare a vobis iussit Iuppiter, ut conquaestores singula in subsellia eant per totam caveam spectatoribus, si cui favitores delegates viderint, ut is in cavea pignus capiantur togae; Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
  • Quaestors, praetors, and consuls were often employed after their year of office at Rome as ‘pro-magistrates’ to administer the provinces of the Roman empire.
  • The board of magistrates consisted of two duumvirs, two aediles - they were in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, etc. and two quaestors - treasury officers.
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  • He became quaestor, aedile and praetor - progressively important posts within the Roman senate.
  • Hegio then began to buy up Elean captives, hoping to get hold of one that he could exchange for his son -- the captive son, that is: for he has no idea that this man at his home is his own child. et quoniam heri indaudivit, de summo loco 30 summoque genere captum esse equitem Aleum, nil pretio parsit, filio dum parceret: reconciliare ut facilius posset domum, emit hosce e praeda ambos de quaestoribus. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
  • He had risen through the bureaucracy of Naples as municipal quaestor, aedile, duumvir.
  • Once again, elections were held for aedile, praetor, quaestor and the other traditional offices of the Republic.
  • Ceterum interea fidei causa mittitur a consule Sextius quaestor in oppidum Jugurthae Vagam, [174] cujus rei species erat acceptio frumenti, quod Calpurnius palam legatis imperaverat, quoniam deditionis mora induciae agitabantur. [ C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
  • Deinde, ubi dies advenit et ei nuntiatum est Jugurtham haud procul abesse, cum paucis amicis et quaestore nostro quasi obvius honoris causa procedit in tumulum facillimum visu insidiantibus. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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