quaestura
From LSJ
Ὦ ξεῖν’, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. → Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
quaestūra: ae, f. quaestor,
I the office of quæstor, the quæstorship (class.): quaestura primus gradus honoris, Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 11: quaesturam petere, id. Mur. 8, 18; Tac. A. 3, 29: ex quaesturā consulatum petere, Liv. 32, 7: gerere, Suet. Calig. 1. —
II Transf., the quæstor's chest: translator quaesturae, an embezzler of the public chest, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 58, § 152.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
quæstūra,¹⁰ æ, f. (quæstor),
1 questure (charge, fonction de questeur) : Cic. Verr. 2, pr. 11 ; Mur. 18
2 c. quæstus CIL 3, 797 ; 798 ; 1379.
