quaestor
/kwes-ter, kwee-ster/US // ˈkwɛs tər, ˈkwi stər //UK // (ˈkwiːstə, -tɔː) //
理事长,委员长,先生,负责人
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n.名词 noun
- 1
Roman History.
- : one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- : one of the public magistrates in charge of the state funds, as treasury officers or those attached to the consuls and provincial governors.
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Examples
The Quaestor glared at the men to make sure they understood.
In the course of nine centuries, the office of quaestor had experienced a very singular revolution.
Before their resolves had transpired, a quaestor and some tribunes were commissioned to take his devoted life.
The traveller will not venture alone, but awaits the companionship on the road of an ambassador, a quaestor or a proconsul.
One side—the shortest—of it was occupied by the prefecture, in which the Aedile and Quaestor lived.
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