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  • noun Plural form of quaestor.

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Examples

  • Assisting the consuls were two financial officials called quaestors who were originally appointed by the chief officials and after 443 (447) were elected.

    e. The Early Republic 2001

  • It was physically moved to the temple of Saturn under the administration of appointed quaestors.

    What If? The Bag Fee « PubliCola 2010

  • There were twenty quaestors, each elected to an annual term, and all granted entrance to the Senate afterward.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • There were twenty quaestors, each elected to an annual term, and all granted entrance to the Senate afterward.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • There were twenty quaestors, each elected to an annual term, and all granted entrance to the Senate afterward.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • There were twenty quaestors, each elected to an annual term, and all granted entrance to the Senate afterward.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • At this time it held a thousand men, who were either admitted through election as quaestors, or adlected by the censors, or by the Triumvirs.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Only in times of great internal danger do we resort to longer, more dictatorial government, as at the moment, when we have three—I beg your pardon, conscript fathers, two—Triumvirs to oversee the activities of the consuls, praetors, aediles, and quaestors, if not the tribunes of the plebs.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • At this time it held a thousand men, who were either admitted through election as quaestors, or adlected by the censors, or by the Triumvirs.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Only in times of great internal danger do we resort to longer, more dictatorial government, as at the moment, when we have three—I beg your pardon, conscript fathers, two—Triumvirs to oversee the activities of the consuls, praetors, aediles, and quaestors, if not the tribunes of the plebs.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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