questor

• “He accessed everything in his memory banks on the archetype of the Quest, and found that while the questor often had companions for much of his journey, there always came a point at which he or she must face a final test alone.”

  Fictionaut: The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)

• “How'd you get to be a questor, young fellow?" asks Yarrl.”

  The Magic Engineer

• “In 1547 he was sent to Rome and appointed questor for the community.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “He therefore abandoned his studies with the consent of his superiors, and for many years was employed as cook and questor.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

• “They are allowed to put an end to all criminal trials; to remove from the tribunals whoever they think fit; to decide by themselves on the most important matters; to delegate their power to a questor; to send about surveyors; and to ratify whatever the surveyor has reported to that single decemvir by whom he has been sent.”

  II. In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law

• “He whose questor you had been when general, whose master of the horse when he was dictator, to whom you had been the chief cause of war, the chief instigator of cruelty, the sharer of his plunder, his son, as you yourself said, by inheritance, proceeded against you for the money which you owed for the house and gardens, and for the other property which you had bought at that sale.”

  VII. The Second Oration Against Mark Antony

• “And, to say nothing of the stains and disgraces of his youth, what other remarkable event is there in his questorship, that first step to honor, except that Cnæus Carbo was robbed by his questor of the public money? that the consul was plundered and betrayed? his army deserted? his province abandoned? the holy nature and obligations imposed on him by lot violated?”

  I. The First Oration Against Verres

• “Born in 100 B.C.; assassinated in 44; famous as general, statesman, orator, and writer; served in Mitylene in 80; captured by pirates in 76; questor in 68; pontifex maximus in 63; propretor in Spain in 61; member of the First”

  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

• “Born in Tusculum, Italy, in 234 B.C., died in 149; celebrated as statesman, general, and writer; questor under”

  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

• “I was questor, on the Idæan worship of the great mother being adopted.”

  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

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