quaestor

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)

From Middle English questor, from Latin quaestor, from an old participle form of quaerō.

[20] The office of quaestor was the entrance to all public employments. — The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus
When made quaestor, the province of Crete and Cyrene fell to him by lot. — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius
“When I was attached to the Quaestor’s staff, in Asia, I was quartered with a family at Pergamus. — The Satyricon — Complete, Petronius Arbiter

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