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<b class="b2">Be quaestor</b>, v.: P. ταμιεύειν (late). | <b class="b2">Be quaestor</b>, v.: P. ταμιεύειν (late). | ||
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|lshtext=<b>quaestor</b>: (old orthogr., QVAISTOR, Epit. of the Scipios, et saep.), ōris, m. contr. from [[quaesitor]], from [[quaero]],<br /><b>I</b> a quætor, the [[title]] of a [[class]] of Roman magistrates, [[some]] of whom had [[charge]] of the [[pecuniary]] affairs of the State, [[while]] others conducted [[certain]] [[criminal]] trials ([[but]] [[only]], it would [[seem]], as delegates or commissioners of the [[people]]): quaestores a quaerendo, qui conquirerent publicas pecunias et maleficia, quae [[triumviri]] capitales [[nunc]] conquirunt: ab his [[postea]], qui quaestionum judicia exercent, quaestores dicti, Varr. L. L. 5, § 81 Müll.: et [[quia]] de capite [[civis]] Romani injussu populi non erat lege [[permissum]] consulibus jus dicere, [[propterea]] quaestores constituebantur a [[populo]], qui capitalibus rebus praeessent: hique appellabantur quaestores parricidii, quorum [[etiam]] meminit lex [[duodecim]] tabularum, Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 23; cf.: parricidii quaestores appellabantur, qui solebant creari causā rerum capitalium quaerendarum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 221 Müll. (cf. Fest. p. 258, 31). But [[they]] were [[commonly]] called [[simply]] quaestores, Liv. 2, 41, 11; 3, 24, 3; Cic. Rep. 2, 35, 60.— As a [[standing]] [[magistracy]], the quæstors were treasurers of State, treasurers. They distributed [[their]] duties [[among]] [[themselves]] by [[lot]], Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 13, § 34; id. Mur. 8, 18. Of these the [[quaestor]] [[urbanus]] or aerarii, [[who]] remained at [[Rome]], took [[charge]] of the [[treasury]], of the [[public]] revenues and expenditures, of the standards deposited in the aerarium, etc., Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 2; Cic. Har. Resp. 20, 43; id. Verr. 1, 4, 11; Liv. 7, 23; 26, 47; Val. Max. 5, 1, 1; Tac. A. 13, 28. The quæstors appointed as assistants to the consuls or prætors for the provinces, called quaestores provinciales or militares, provided for the [[payment]] and provisioning of the [[troops]], [[collected]] the imposts, and, in the [[absence]] of the [[governor]], acted in his [[stead]], Cic. Div. in Caecil. 19, 61; id. Planc. 11, 28; id. Sen. 10, 32; Liv. 26, 47. Service in the [[higher]] offices of State began [[with]] the quæstorship, the lowest of [[them]] [[which]] conferred a [[seat]] in the Senate, to [[which]] no one [[was]] [[legally]] [[eligible]] [[before]] the [[age]] of [[twenty]]-[[five]], Tac. A. 11, 22. [[Augustus]] instituted a [[new]] [[sort]] of quæstors, quaestores candidati or principis (Caesaris), [[who]] conveyed the [[imperial]] messages to the Senate, Plin. Ep. 7, 16, 2; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 43, 3: [[oratio]] principis per quaestorem ejus audita est, Tac. A. 16, 27; Dig. 1, 13, 1; cf. [[candidatus]], 2. The [[emperor]] Constantine appointed quaestores palatii or chancellors, Cod. Th. 1, 8; 6, 9; 7, 62, 32; Cassiod. Var. 6, 5; called QVAESTOR INTRA PALATIVM, Inscr. Orell. 1188.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: [[quaestor]] non imperii, sed doloris mei, Cic. Red. in Sen. 14, 35 (bracketed as dub. by B. and K.). | |||
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