Crossword clues for quaestor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Questor \Ques"tor\, n. [L. quaestor, contr. fr. quaesitor, fr. quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, ask: cf. F. questeur.] (Rom. Antiq.) An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state.
Note: At an early period there were also public accusers styled questors, but the office was soon abolished.
Wiktionary
n. An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.
WordNet
n. any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)
Wikipedia
A (, ; ), was a public official in Ancient Rome. The position served different functions depending on the period. In the Roman Kingdom, (quaestors with judicial powers) were appointed by the king to investigate and handle murders. In the Roman Republic, quaestors (also pluralized ) were elected officials that supervised the state treasury and conducted audits. It was the lowest ranking position in the (course of offices). In the Roman Empire, the position, which was initially replaced by the (prefect), reemerged during the late empire as , a position appointed by the emperor to lead the imperial council and respond to petitioners.
In modern usage in Italy and Romania, a quaestor is a senior ranking officer on the police force. In some organizations, a quaestor is the officer that oversees its finances, similar to a treasurer in other organizations.
The Quaestor at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland, is a senior executive, member of the University Court and is responsible for the finances of the University; the equivalent of treasurer or Finance Director in other institutions.
The Quaestor is a member of the Office of the Principal, and work under the direction of the University Principal, who is chief executive of the University.
The term Quaestor can refer to any number of officials:
- Quaestor, a magistrate in the Roman Republic responsible for civil and military finances
- Quaestor sacri palatii, head legal official of the late Roman/early Byzantine empires, established by Constantine the Great
- Quaestor exercitus, 6th-century Byzantine military/administrative post established by Emperor Justinian
- Quaestor (University of St Andrews), the Finance Director and Treasurer
- Quaestor (European Parliament), officials elected to look after Members of the European Parliament
- Questore, a rank of the Italian Police force
- Chestor, the Romanian National Police rank equivalent to the rank of Police Commissioner
Five Quaestors in the European Parliament look after the financial and administrative interests of Members of the European Parliament.
Usage examples of "quaestor".
The quaestor and exceptor Cassiodorus Filius is preparing the mandatum.
Roman citizens spread across the whole thirty-five tribes would markedly decrease the Roman content of the elections, would see Italians contest the polls for consul, praetor, aedile, tribune of the plebs, and quaestor, would see Italians in huge numbers enter the Senate, all determined to wrest control of the Senate away from the Romans and into the hands of Italy.
So I will see two consuls elected, eight praetors elected, two curule and two plebeian aediles elected, ten tribunes of the plebs elected, and twelve quaestors.
Then will follow the elections for quaestors, curule aediles, tribunes of the soldiers and other minor positions in the Assembly of the People ten days before the Kalends of Sextilis.
Gnaeus Octavius, you harass the praetors, the aediles, your fellow tribunes of the plebs, Publius Cethegus, all our consulars and great men, bankers like Titus Atticus, even the poor quaestors!
It elected the curule aediles, the quaestors, and the tribunes of the soldiers.
This privatization was an ongoing thing throughout the Republic, and was usually effected through the censors, praetors, aediles and quaestors.
Senate through its aediles and quaestors made sure the Head Count was sold grain at a reasonable price, even if in times of shortage that meant buying expensive grain and letting it go at the same reasonable price, much to the chagrin of the Treasury.
Silarus into Campania again, Varinius and Valerius left these five cohorts to guard the ford under the command of a quaestor, Gaius Toranius.
There will be twenty quaestors elected each year, a sufficient number to offset senatorial deaths and keep the House plump.
Sicily, who will have two quaestors, one for Syracuse and one for Lilybaeum.
Sulla increased the number of quaestors from perhaps twelve to twenty, and laid down that a man could not be quaestor until he was thirty years of age.
The interview then proceeded with a speed and cleverness which had Marcus Vibius gasping, for he was not used to quaestors with a grasp of accounting, nor to a memory so good it enabled its owner to reel off whole screeds of data without consultation of written material.
The quaestors also did their friends and families favors if these people were in debt to the State by turning a blind eye to the fact or ordering their names erased from the official records.
In short, the quaestors located in Rome simply permitted the permanent Treasury staff to go about their business and get the work done.