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David Natal
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
... Public office in the Roman Empire, which derived originally from the most junior magistracy in the cursus honorum of the Roman Republic. In the Later Roman Empire the quaestorship was the first step in the career of a scion of the senatorial aristocracy ; some quaestors were younger than 16 ( CTh VI, 4, 1). From the reign of Constantine I onwards, the Senate annually elected an unknown number of quaestors in Rome . They could also be nominated by the emperor as a quaestor candidatus ( HA Alexander Severus , 43). Quaestors had no major public...
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Alexander Kazhdan
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
... (κυαίστωρ or κοιαίστωρ) of the sacred palace (Lat. quaestor sacri palatii ), high-ranking official of the late Roman Empire, an office created by Constantine I . The quaestor was originally responsible for drafting imperial laws and, together with several other functionaries, dealt with petitions addressed to the emperor. His judicial rights were relatively insignificant, but as the emperor's closest adviser in legal questions he acquired enormous influence. The importance of the quaestor increased concurrently with that of the magister officiorum . ...
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Ernst Badian and Tony Honoré
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...were often patricians and always young men of distinction. The actual duties of the quaestors in Italy were gradually taken over by imperial officials, but in the public provinces quaestors retained some financial functions throughout the Principate. Colonies and municipia ( see municipium ), and normally collegia also had quaestors in charge of their finances. In the later empire the office of emperor's quaestor (sometimes called quaestor sacri palatii : quaestor of the sacred palace) grew in importance since he assumed the role of spokesman for the...
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Jill Harries
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
... Sacri Palatii (imperial quaestor) Originally the emperor ’s spokesman, a role he never lost, the imperial quaestor became, by the mid- 4th century , the emperor’s main legal adviser and draughtsman of imperial legislation. He was thus ex officio a member of the imperial Consistorium . Holders of the office included Eupraxius, who advised Valentinian I on the law of treason , and the poet Ausonius . The Quaestor had no office staff but instead made use of the various secretariats; when the office was vacant, the Magister Memoriae may have...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... (Rom. antiq.) official having charge of public finances. XIV. — L. quaestor , f. * quaes- , old form of stem of quaerere seek, inquire (see prec.) + -TOR...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • cater , crater, creator, curator, data, debater, delator, dumbwaiter, equator, fascinator, freighter, frustrater, gaiter, grater, gyrator, hater, later, legator, mater, negator, pater, peseta, plater, rotator, skater, slater, stater, tater, traitor, ultimata, understater, upstater, waiter • painter • taster , waster • gamester • aviator • tailgater • hesitater • shirtwaister • Akita , Anita, arboreta, beater, beta, Bhagavadgita, cheater, cheetah, Demeter, Dieter, dolce vita, eater, eta, Evita, excreta, fetor, granita, greeter, heater, Juanita,...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
...tribunate and/or a minor civil magistracy). It was the lowest of the regular magistracies. By the late 2nd cent. bc , most ex‐quaestors were enrolled in the Senate, but the size of the Senate did not permit the enrolment of all. Sulla, who doubled the size of the Senate, made quaestors' entry automatic. Provinciae of quaestors were normally allotted, but magistrates could choose a quaestor for personal reasons. Quaestors attached to magistrates or promagistrates abroad did not normally serve more than two years. In addition to managing the provincial...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
... (‘investigators’) Magistrates at Rome; in the early republic there were two who prosecuted some capital cases. After 447 bc the quaestors became properly constituted magistrates elected annually by the people ( see decemviri ); in 421 their number was increased to four, two of whom administered the state treasury, aerarium , and were called in consequence quaestores aerarii or urbani (‘of the city’). Four more were instituted in 267 and others added later as the number of Roman provinces increased and financial officers were required....
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A Dictionary of Statistics (3 ed.)
... ( Quick, Unbiased and Efficient Statistical Tree ) A program for constructing classification trees . http://www.stat.wisc.edu/?loh/quest.html Outline of...
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A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
... This was the name of the Memory Computer (UK) Ltd travel agency computerized data accounting and ticketing...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 118; ER Yorks; also Devon. English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English, Old French queste ‘trial, inquest’, ‘(member of?) a jury’, also ‘request’, ‘search, quest, hunt’. It might, for example, have been a name for a lawyer or advocate, or for someone who frequently served on...
