questorship

In his mental confusion he had forgotten to give a counter order, and that accident caused him to escape the two policemen charged by the questorship to watch the Palazzetto Doria, on Lydia Maitland's denunciation.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

So it happened that there began to appear descendants of great houses who refused to be senators; every year an effort had to be made to find a sufficient number of candidates for the more numerous positions like the questorship, and in the army it was no easy matter to fill all the posts of the superior officers which were reserved for members of the nobility.

The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

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 1906

After that, I was treated with respect by you, and you received attentions from me in your canvass for the questorship.

VII. The Second Oration Against Mark Antony 1906

So it happened that there began to appear descendants of great houses who refused to be senators; every year an effort had to be made to find a sufficient number of candidates for the more numerous positions like the questorship, and in the army it was no easy matter to fill all the posts of the superior officers which were reserved for members of the nobility.

The Women of the Caesars Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

In his mental confusion he had forgotten to give a counter order, and that accident caused him to escape the two policemen charged by the questorship to watch the Palazzetto Doria, on

Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893

The lot of questorship gave him Asia for his province, and the proconsul Salvius

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887

Marcellus raised a monument over him, and placed upon it a cylinder and a sphere, thereby to immortalize his discovery of their mutual relations, on which he set a particular value; but it remained long neglected and unknown, till Cicero, during his questorship of Sicily, found it near one of the gates of Syracuse, and had it repaired.

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834

I might say, if without envy, that he whom an honest questorship had endeared to the Sicilians was not more by them importuned against Verres6 than the favorable opinion which I had among many who honor ye, and are known and respected by ye, loaded me with entreaties and persuasion, that I would not despair to lay together that which just reason should bring into my mind, toward the removal of an undeserved thraldom upon learning.

Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing 1906