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  1. A Roman magistrate whose duties were mainly
  2. concerned with public finances. The quaestors
  3. originated as assistants to the consuls. Both
  4. urban and military quaestors existed, the
  5. latter being attached to the commanding
  6. generals in the provinces.
  7.