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  • While the quaestorian records in Syracuse were either missing or inadequate, the quaestorian records in Lilybaeum yielded mines of evidence.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Gone home after the quaestorian elections of the day before, was the answer; and with nothing scheduled to happen in the Forum, it saw no point in coming back.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • He allowed the triumphal honours only to those who were of quaestorian rank, and to some of the equestrian order; and bestowed them without regard to military service.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He expelled a man of quaestorian rank from the senate, for practising mimicry and dancing.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He not only allowed them to receive, by decree of the senate, immense presents, but also to be decorated with the quaestorian and praetorian ensigns of honour.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He expelled a man of quaestorian rank from the senate, for practising mimicry and dancing.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • And what men of aedilitian rank! and of tribunitian rank! and of quaestorian rank!

    The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • This side of the camp was in the enemy's hands until one of the "special cohorts" which had been sent by the consul to defend the quaestorian gate drove them out of the camp after killing many of them, and stopped those who were breaking in.

    The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905

  • The Gauls had broken through the quaestorian gate, and after meeting with the most obstinate resistance had killed the quaestor, L. Postumius Tympanus, M. Atinius and P. Sempronius, praefects of allies, and nearly 200 men.

    The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905

  • Q. Fulvius Flaccus, a staff officer, was posted with the right division of allied troops at the quaestorian gate.

    The History of Rome, Vol. VI 1905

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