qusstores classici

/kwestoriyz klaesasay/ In Roman law, officers entrusted with the care of the public money. Their duties consisted in making the necessary payments from the serarium, and receiving the public revenues. Of both they had to keep correct accounts in their tabulse publicse. Demands which any one might have on the serarium, and outstanding debts were likewise registered by them. Fines to be paid to the public treasury were registered and exacted by them. They were likewise to provide proper accommodations for foreign ambassadors and such persons as were connected with the republic by ties of public hospitality. Lastly, they were charged with the care of the burials and monuments of distinguished men, the expenses for which had been decreed by the senate to be paid by the treasury. Their number at first was confined to two; but this was afterwards increased as the empire became extended. There were quaestors of cities and of provinces, and quaestors of the army; the latter were in fact paymasters