What is "quaestors"

Usage examples of "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.

It elected the curule aediles, the quaestors, and the tribunes of the soldiers.

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.

And certainly neither the permanent Treasury staff nor Marcellus and Lollius, the two other urban quaestors, had any idea that things were about to change radically.

Treasury background, quaestors could do only what they were allowed to do.

The quaestors included none other than Quintus Sertorius, whose winning of the Grass Crown in Spain would procure him any and every office.

The urban quaestors have reported to me that the Treasury is empty, and the tribunes of the Treasury have given me a figure for the debt Rome owes to various institutions and individuals in Italian Gaul.

Plebeian Assembly, after which the Assembly of the Whole People was convoked to elect curule aediles, quaestors, tribunes of the soldiers.

Though they were three to four years off their thirtieth birthdays, Gaius Flavius Fimbria, Publius Annius and Gaius Marcius Censorinus were all elected quaestors and appointed immediately to the Senate, neither censor thinking it wise to protest.

It was called together by a consul or praetor, and elected the quaestors, the curule aediles, and the tribunes of the soldiers.