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

Lucius Lucullus, Sulla’s quaestor, appeared in the Aegean with a fleet that he had gathered among Rome’s allies in the East.

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

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

The governor was accompanied by a quaestor, who acted as his treasurer and received the provincial revenue from the tax collectors.

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

In 199 he was quaestor, and the next year, passing over the regular stages of aedile and praetor, he obtained the consulship.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various