The four quaestors who had been since 487 distributed throughout Italy did not, formally at least, restrict the consular authority, for in Italy, just as in Rome, they were regarded simply as auxiliary magistrates dependent on the consuls.
The aediles had charge of public works, and market and police regulations, while the quaestors were the local treasury officials.
The number of quaestors was increased to twenty, that of the praetors raised from six to eight.
The Assembly of the Tribes not only elected the plebeian tribunes and aediles, but soon chose the quaestors also.
Under Nero the place of these quaestors was taken by two prefects appointed in the same manner but from among the ex-praetors.
After the ambassadors returned to Scipio, the quaestors were ordered to give in an account, made out from the public registers, of the public property which had been in the ships; and the owners to make a return of the private property.
How many quaestors had been hitherto chosen annually, is not known.
The already-mentioned augmentation of the number of quaestors by Sulla to twenty was likewise connected with this arrangement.
Now, as down to Sulla's time there were nine provinces, and moreover two quaestors were sent to Sicily, he may possibly have found as many as eighteen quaestors in existence.
Intermediate Fuctionaries); to which there fell to be added the quaestors employed in the provinces (III.
The assertion, for instance, that the quaestors were nominated in the regal period by the burgesses, not by the king, is as certainly erroneous as it bears on its face the impress of a partisan character.
That the people were consulted, we read in the law as to the quaestorswhich is still in part extant; and the same is attested of other laws, e.
Iuventius Laterensis, the Roman quaestor, for the brick stamps of Praeneste in other cases seem to show the quaestors of the city.
Praeneste were two praetors,[202] who had the regular aediles and quaestors as assistants.
Sertorius, the quaestors of the same year, do not appear in the inscriptions of Praeneste except here, and it is impossible to say more than that Sertorius is a good Roman name, and Caleius a good north Italian one.
Also it has been shown that in two cases men who had been quaestors were made praefects, that is, appointees of people who had been nominated quinquennales as an honor, and who had at once appointed praefects to carry out their duties.
As for number, all were the same as before, except that thirteen praetors and forty quaestors were appointed.
For the first year, as previously, forty quaestors were elected, and then for the first time two patrician aediles and four from the people.
The first quaestors were Publius Venturius and Marcus Minucius, and a large sum of money was collected, for a hundred and thirty thousand persons were taxed, although orphans and widows were exempted.
It appears that at this time thequaestors had their provinces assigned by lot, and this was the case under the Empire.
Three hundred new Senators, taken from the Equites, were added, and all who had been Quaestors were made eligible to the Senate.
The elections for Quaestors were held in the Comitia Tribúta.
Through their clerks, the two city Quaestors kept the accounts, received the taxes, and paid out the city's money, as directed by the Senate.
All the magistrates, except the Censor, were elected for one year; and all but the Tribunes and Quaestorsbegan their term of office on January 1st.
Thus, if the Consuls or Quaestors were inclined to press the law of debt to extremes, or to be unjust in the levying of troops, the Tribunes could step in, and by their VETO stop the matter at once.
These officers held nearly the same position in reference to the Tribunes that the Quaestors did to the Consuls.
Cassiodorus to four Quaestors before the year 510, and that therefore the fact of others holding the nominal office of Quaestor did not circumscribe his activity as Secretary to Theodoric.
The consuls, praetors, aediles, tribunes, andquaestors retained substantially their previous formal powers; nevertheless their position was totally altered.
Both consuls and tribunes had full and co-ordinate criminal jurisdiction, although the former exercised it indirectly, and the latter directly; as the two quaestors were attached to the former, the two aediles were associated with the latter.
The patrician quaestors were now remiss and indulgent in levying it, and gradually allowed it to fall into desuetude.
These, on hearing of what had passed at Syracuse, conveyed thither the royal treasure which was at Leontini, and put it into the hands of quaestorsappointed for that purpose.
Plutarch says, "Publicola appointed the Temple of Saturn to be the treasury, which they still make use of for that purpose, and empowered the people to choose two young men as quaestors or treasurers.
The quaestors led the man [Spurius Cassius] to the top of the precipice that commands the Forum, and in the presence of all the citizens threw him down from the rock.
From the same confidence of spirit, when the quaestors would not venture to bring money out of the coffers contrary to law, he demanded the keys of the treasury, declaring that he would open it as he had caused it to be shut.
The city quaestors received the tribute, and the censors the golden vases; and the business of placing them in whatever temples they should judge proper, was assigned to them.
The praetor then sent the quaestors to take possession of Lucius Scipio's property, for the use of the public.
In pursuance of a decree of the senate, one-half of the taxes of that year was paid by the quaestors into the hands of the censors, to defray the expenses of public works.
When the quaestors were sent to take public possession of the property of Lucius Scipio, not only was no trace of the king's money apparent in it, but not even so much was raised thereby as the amount in which he was fined.
Certain men who had been quaestors the previous year were sent out to the provinces, since those who were quaestors at the time proved too few for them.
The quaestors did not give the ambassadors the money for their expenses which they ought to have given them.
Not only the consuls and praetors but even the quaestors were arrayed against one another, and this lasted for some time.
As the army was much pressed for necessaries, and the consul himself was not ready to put to sea directly, he sent the quaestors before him with a small squadron.
But the consul was equally averse with the quaestors to hazard the supply of the army by a battle, and he, therefore, also took shelter near some rocks.
The functions of the quaestors were as unlimited as those of their superiors, the consuls; but their jurisdiction was confined chiefly to criminal matters and finance.
Associated with the consuls were, at first, two annually appointed quaestors whom they nominated.
For the Quaestors cannot issue any public money for the various departments of the state without a decree of the Senate, except for the service of the Consuls.
The vessels in question were those which had been despatched in advance under the charge of the Quaestors from Syracuse.
Arrived there, he handed over to the Quaestors half his transports and some of his war-ships, and sent them off, being very anxious that what the army needed should reach them promptly.
I' faith, I compassed my design, when I purchased these men of the Quaestors out of the spoil.
Those two captives whom I purchased yesterday of the Quaestors out of the spoil, put upon them chains of light weight [1]; take of those greater ones with which they are bound.
In order that he may more easily bring him back home, be buys both of these of the Quaestors [11] out of the spoil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quaestors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
