Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See questor, questorship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
questor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)
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Examples
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Deinde, ubi dies advenit et ei nuntiatum est Jugurtham haud procul abesse, cum paucis amicis et quaestore nostro quasi obvius honoris causa procedit in tumulum facillimum visu insidiantibus.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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In B.C. 50, Sallust was _legatus pro quaestore_ to Bibulus in Syria, according to Mommsen (_Hermes_, i. 171), who thinks that the Sallust to whom Cicero writes _ad Fam. _ ii. 17 is the historian.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Abr. 1777 = B.C. 240, 'Q. Ennius poeta Tarenti [an error] nascitur, qui a Catone quaestore Romam translatus habitavit in monte
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Jusiius igitur Gracchanus, in libro de Po - testatibus, his ipsis verbis de quaestore Romano?
Joannis Laurentii Lydi Philadelpheni De magistratibus reipublicae Romanae ... Johannes Laurentius Lydus, Jean Dominique Fuss, Charles Benoît Hase 1812
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"In Asiam cum a quaestore essem stipendio eductus, hospitium Pergami accepi.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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•trema Tcrba neme dobltabit legends esye quaestore pro praetore* Atqoe eandem lectionem in eitatis qooqoe M. Antonii denariis praefiarendam, oolligo ex nnmis L. Gellii, et M. Coceii Ner -
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