Quaestor


 * Quaestor**

One of the lowest offices in ancient Roman government, the role of the quaestor was first and formostly to act as a treasurer of the public, to collect taxes and supervise the public financially. The twenty* quaestors were responsible for overseeing the monetary aspects of the goverment, including keeping track of the accounts, archiving the city treasures, and paying out government funds. Cicero was a particularly famous quaestor, who went on to become a consul, one of the most esteemed political positions.


 * Only four in 420 BC, ten in 267 BC, and Sulla increased it to twenty in 81 BC. [[image:http://www.aeqvitas.com/farsul.jpg width="361" height="176" align="right" caption="A coin from 75 BC, around the time when Cicero was a quaestor.http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aeqvitas.com/aesillas.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.aeqvitas.com/photo.php%3Ffreeform%3Dreverse&usg=__Q-7w5v3U6PEQHjRVtXpM_9sqE1c=&h=379&w=771&sz=133&hl=en&start=4&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=6ahh5-VqU3c_UM:&tbnh=70&tbnw=142&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dquaestor%2Broman%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1"]]