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Quaestor
quaestor
also: quaestor
The lowest of the regular senatorial magistracies, chiefly financial; quaestors managed the treasury at Rome or a province's revenues, the first rung of the cursus honorum.
Reading notes
- The Letters §2.9.2 quaestorship
The quaestorship, the first regular magistracy of the senatorial career, entered around age twenty-five.
- Panegyric to Trajan §70 as quaestor
The quaestorship, the first and lowest senatorial magistracy (chiefly financial), the entry step of the cursus honorum; a provincial quaestor managed a province's revenues.