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quaestor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
quaestor , Roman magistrate, with...treasury; in early times a quaestor also had judicial powers. At first there were two quaestors. Sulla named 20, and Caesar...Augustus reduced them to 20. Quaestors were in theory deputies for...
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Cassius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...BC, won a reputation for greed and corruption when he was a quaestor in Spain (54 BC). He and Antony , as tribunes in 49 BC...successful conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar. He fought as a quaestor under Marcus Licinius Crassus (see under Crassus , family...
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Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...he was the first Roman soldier over the wall. In Spain, as quaestor to the consul C. Hostilius Mancinus in 137 B.C., Tiberius...B.C., while still commissioner, he went to Sardinia as quaestor to the consul L. Aurelius Orestes. There, because of his...
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Mark Antony
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...as a cavalry officer during campaigns in Palestine and Egypt. From there he went to Caesar in Gaul. In 52 he was elected quaestor in Rome and returned to Gaul to take part in the suppression of the revolt of Vercingetorix. In 50 he was elected tribune...
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Marcus Junius Brutus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...lending money to the Cypriot Senate at the extortionate rate of 48 percent and by using force to exact its payment. Elected quaestor for 53 B.C., Brutus refused to join Caesar's staff in Gaul but went to Cilicia with his father-in-law, Appius Claudius...
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...back in Rome, where he married Terentia, whose family was wealthy and perhaps aristocratic. In 75 he held the office of quaestor, which brought him membership in the Senate, and in 70 he scored his first great success, when he prosecuted Caius Verres...
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Marcus Livius Drusus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...stilitibus judicandis, a court of 10 which decided cases as to whether a man was free or a slave (ca. 104), and was chosen a quaestor (ca. 102), the first step on the ladder of public office for aspiring Roman politicians. He was aedile in 94 and became...
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Gaius Marius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...people's army. Within 2 years Marius beat Jugurtha from the field, but part of the glory of the victory was stolen by his quaestor, L. Cornelius Sulla, who negotiated the surrender of Jugurtha. As a result, bitter enmity developed between Marius and...
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...married Terentia, whose family was wealthy and perhaps part of the ruling class. In 75 b.c.e. he held the office of quaestor, which brought him membership in the Senate, the highest council in the Roman empire. In 70 b.c.e. he achieved his...
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Pliny the Elder
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...ward, Pliny the Younger (Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus), AD 62?-c.AD 113, was an orator and a statesman. He was quaestor (AD 89), tribune (AD 91), and praetor (AD 93) and subsequently held treasury posts. He was consul (AD 100) and died...
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