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  • noun The office or status of quaestor.

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Examples

  • The quaestorship was the lowest rung on the ladder of honors.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The quaestorship was the lowest rung on the ladder of honors.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The quaestorship was the lowest rung on the ladder of honors.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The quaestorship was the lowest rung on the ladder of honors.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • A few weeks later, when Clodius returned to Rome from Sicily after his quaestorship was over and stood up in the Senate to demand the right to transfer to the plebs, it was Celer who was the most violent in his opposition.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was informed that the Senate had sent a decree to the Assembly of the People asking that body to waive the usual requirements-membership in the Senate, the quaestorship and praetorship-and legislate to allow him to stand for the consulship.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • As his quaestorship meant he was now a member of the Senate, he was willing to leave Rome (though he had hoped for a job within Italy, and cursed his luck in the lots) and plunge himself enthusiastically into his work, which was mostly to do with the grain supply.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Gnaeus Caepio had prudently made his will before he left for Asia Province and his quaestorship, but I imagine he never dreamed for a moment that it would be executed.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • After that, I was treated with respect by you, and you received attentions from me in your canvass for the quaestorship.

    The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • He preferred a very obscure candidate for the quaestorship, before the most noble competitors, only for taking off, in pledging him at table, an amphora of wine at a draught [343].

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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