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Example sentences for "quaestor"

Lexicographically close words:
quaerere; quaeris; quaerit; quaero; quaestio; quaestors; quaestorship; quaff; quaffed; quaffing
  1. AEthelweard gave himself the bombastic title ``Patricius Consul Quaestor Ethelwerdus,'' and unfortunately this title is only too characteristic of the man.

  2. Cato, who, when acting as quaestor in Sardinia, found the poet in that island serving, with the rank of centurion, in the Roman army.

  3. That he had become a man of some note in that capacity is suggested by the fact that he attracted the attention of the Roman quaestor Cato, and accompanied him to Rome.

  4. A better rendering: When I was Quaestor I was able to trace the tomb of Archimedes, overgrown and hedged in with brambles and brushwood.

  5. Sulla’s quaestor in the first Mithridatic War, 88-84 B.

  6. In every age Sicily's climate has been sung as halcyone, and in the days when Cicero was quaestor under the Roman rule, he did not exaggerate greatly when he said that there is never a day when the sun does not smile at least once.

  7. Immediately, however, his quaestor was charged with several misdemeanors, for the purpose of implicating Caesar himself.

  8. He governed the province in quality of quaestor for ten years, with singular moderation and justice.

  9. But the father of Tiberius Caesar, being quaestor to Caius Caesar, and commander of his fleet in the war of Alexandria, contributed greatly to its success.

  10. A quaestor who was said to be concerned in a conspiracy against him, he scourged severely, having first stripped off his clothes, and spread them under the feet of the soldiers employed in the work, that they might stand the more firm.

  11. This Drusus, during the time of his being quaestor and praetor, commanded in the Rhaetian and German wars, and was the first of all the Roman generals who navigated the Northern Ocean [466].

  12. Scutarius went from quaestor one year to duovir the next, without an intervening office, and but a half year of intervening time; and that C.

  13. A man with the cognomen Sedatus is quaestor in one year, and without holding other office is made praefect to the sons of Germanicus, Nero and Drusus, who were nominated quinquennales two years later.

  14. It bore an Oscan inscription, from which we learn that it was set up by the Quaestor Maras Atinius, in accordance with a decree of the council, the money for the expenditure being derived from fines.

  15. No clew to the date is given, but it must have been before the coming of the Roman colony, for after that time there was no office of quaestor in Pompeii.

  16. Then comes the exculpation; as in the case of "that man who, when the law had appointed some particular days within which he was to proceed on his embassy, did not set out because the quaestor did not furnish him with money for his expenses.

  17. On this the quaestor claims the vessel for the people.

  18. At last some of his troops revolted under the quaestor M.

  19. He was quaestor in 75, and was sent to Lilybaeum to supervise the corn supply.

  20. He appears to have died before 56, since in that year Tullia was betrothed to Furius Crassipes (quaestor in Bithynia in 51).

  21. He became pontifex maximus, military tribune, and quaestor in succession.

  22. This kindness he did them in return for the vision of his dream at the time that he was quaestor there, wherein he seemed to have intercourse with his mother and had received the hope of sole rulership, as I have stated.

  23. Not only were those measures carried out that year, but two of the aediles took charge of the municipal government, since no quaestor had been elected.

  24. In the course of nine centuries, the office of quaestor had experienced a very singular revolution.

  25. Trajan intrusted the same care to Hadrian, his quaestor and cousin.

  26. Sardinia was at that time in rebellion, and it fell by lot to Caius to go there as quaestor to the consul Orestes.

  27. Sicily; but the Roman quaestor there was on the look-out, and killing sixteen of the crew nearly took Marius.

  28. His importance is shown by the Senate's actually prolonging the consul's command, in order to keep his quaestor longer abroad.

  29. Caius Verres, a late quaestor of Carbo, who had embezzled the public money in that capacity, and thus began by tergiversation and theft a notorious career.

  30. Rome to Tiberius in Pannonia, and at the expiration of his term of office as quaestor in Rome, he returned to Tiberius as a legatus: ii.

  31. The year 68 he spent as quaestor in Farther Spain, and on his return to Rome strenuously advocated the claims of the Transpadane Gauls to the Roman franchise.

  32. Senate, and a commission in the army as tribunus militum laticlavius; that Titus appointed him quaestor A.

  33. Caecilius Niger, who had been quaestor under Verres in Sicily, should conduct the prosecution.

  34. In the following year he was reappointed quaestor by Caesar and thus regained his place in the senate.

  35. He held various offices, was military tribune, quaestor in 89-90 A.

  36. Your idea about Tuditanus is reasonable enough, he was either quaestor or military tribune, since he was at Corinth at the time and Hortensius was not speaking at random; and I think you are right.

  37. You will be able to find out from Antiochus of course in what year he was quaestor or military tribune.

  38. For the son was quaestor in the year after Mummius was consul.

  39. Campania, just evacuated, was speedily reoccupied, and the Roman corps which was left behind there under Gaius Thoranius, the quaestor of Varinius, was broken and destroyed.

  40. On the other side the interim command in Syria in room of Crassus was taken up by the prudent and resolute quaestor Gaius Cassius.

  41. Catalina The late praetor Lucius Catilina, and the quaestor Gnaeus Piso, were distinguished among their fellows not merely by their genteel birth and their superior rank.

  42. To remove Piso, the proposal was made that he should be sent as quaestor with praetorian powers to Hither Spain; to which Crassus consented, in the hope of securing through him the resources of that important province for the insurrection.

  43. Aurelius Orestes as quaestor to Sardinia, then in a state of revolt.

  44. When quaestor in 137, he accompanied the consul C.

  45. One side--the shortest--of it was occupied by the prefecture, in which the Aedile and Quaestor lived.

  46. Latin rights of 2500 citizens having been established there, it was for a long time the centre of the Roman dominion in Campania, and the seat of the quaestor for southern Italy even down to the days of Tacitus.

  47. This action made Sertorius highly renowned throughout all Spain, and as soon as he returned to Rome he was appointed quaestor of Cisalpine Gaul, at a very seasonable moment for his country, the Marsian war being on the point of breaking out.

  48. Yet privately designing to betray him, he sent for Lucius Sylla, quaestor to Marius, and who had on a previous occasion befriended Bocchus in the war.

  49. It is said that Titius the quaestor snatched the standards and turned them round, upbraiding Gallus with thus leading so many brave men to destruction.

  50. After he had buried his wife, he went as quaestor into Spain under one of the praetors, named Vetus, whom he honored ever after, and made his son his own quaestor, when he himself came to be praetor.

  51. He was chosen quaestor to Marius in his first consulship, and set sail with him for Libya, to war upon Jugurtha.


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