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

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

But the Parthians were slow in following up their advantage and Crassus’ quaestor, Cassius Longinus, was able to hold Syria.

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

He had been quaestor under Mucius Scaevola, in 98 B. C. governor of Asia, where both had sternly checked any unjust exactions by the agents of the publicani.

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

In 77 he was quaestor, in 68 praetor, and in 67-66 governor of Africa.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various