quaestor

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When he returned from his first political posting, as quaestor in Sicily, for instance, he imagined his fame would have spread far and wide.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Lucan quaestor: famous as a reciter and pleader.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

In 101 Hadrian was quaestor, in 105 tribune of the people, in 106 praetor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

Compared with such spectacles, with such subjects of triumph as these, what can praetor or consul, quaestor or pontiff, afford?

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert

These ministers were the master of the offices, the quaestor, the count of the sacred largesses and the count of the private purse.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly