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plural quaestors
(historical) An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs. quotations
Decoratus was quæstor in A.D. 508.
1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter iv, page 85, footnote 2
(historical) The Quaestor sacri palatii of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium; first generally a legislator, then judicial official, and eventually an honorary title by the 14th century.
(historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences.