quaestor
noun
one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
quaestorship
-
a word derived from
quaestor.
Example Sentences
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In the same year they were admitted to the quaestorship, which office entitled the possessor to a seat in the senate.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements by John Lord
At this time, too, Crete, its governor being dead, was attached to the quaestorship and to the quaestor's assistant for the future.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster
Henceforth the quaestorship had to be held before the praetorship, and the latter before the consulate.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
He has already acquitted himself with great credit in the quaestorship, tribunate, and praetorship, and so he has thus spared you the trouble of having to canvass in his behalf.
From Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by John Benjamin Firth
At approximately the same time that the quaestorship became an elective office, the two curators of the temple of Ceres, called aediles, likewise attained the position of public officials.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
