Quaestor

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §24 quaestors

  Annual magistrates who, besides their financial duties, could bring capital charges before the people; here they prosecute Volscius for perjury.

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §4 quaestors

  Junior magistrates managing the treasury and military finances; from 409 BC open to plebeians.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §19 the quaestor

  The financial magistrate to whom captured booty was rendered for the public treasury.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §37 The quaestors too

  The financial magistrates; their opening to the plebs a few years earlier is urged as precedent for the consulship.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §23 the quaestors

  The financial magistrates who kept the treasury and brought out the standards stored there.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §26 quaestorship

  The lowest senatorial magistracy, chiefly financial.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §18 was then by chance quaestor

  Junior magistrate in charge of the treasury and military finance; the lowest rung of the magistracies.

• The History of Rome, Book 25 §13 quaestor

  A junior magistrate handling finance and supply, often attached to a commander; e.g. Gnaeus Cornelius with the army at Capua.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §10 quaestorship

  The junior magistracy, first step of the senatorial career.

• The History of Rome, Book 33 §47 quaestor

  Financial magistrate; the quaestor Hannibal summoned belonged to the dominant order of judges.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §1 quaestor

  Junior Roman financial magistrate; here charged with selling the unclaimed booty.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §17 city quaestors

  The junior magistrates in charge of the public treasury and financial disbursements.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §8 The urban quaestors

  Junior magistrates (quaestores) at Rome in charge of the public treasury, who received the Seleucid tribute.