any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)
A quaestor (; ) was a type of public official in the "cursus honorum" system who supervised financial affairs. In the Roman Republic a quaestor was an elected official, but in the Roman Empire, quaestors came to be simply appointed.
例句与用法
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The quaestor served in the ministry of finance 财务官从事财政部门的服务。
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And make him a quaestor or something 让他当个财务官什么的好了
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And so he was adopted in his eighteenth year , and at the instance of hadrian exception was made for his age35 and he was appointed quaestor for the year of the second consulship of antoninus , now his father 而且由于是十八岁那年被收养的,出于哈德良的请求,考虑到他的年龄( 35 ) ,任命他为安东尼? ?现在是他的父亲,第二次任执政官? ?的财务官。