The following is a list of quaestors in ancient Rome, as reported by ancient sources and compiled by Broughton.[1][2]
The quaestorship was a political office in the Roman cursus honorum. The authenticity of the office prior during the early republic is doubted and quaestorships prior to 446 BC might be fabricated. There are large gaps in the lists of quaestors and only a small percentage of all who held the quaestorship is known. For those who are mentioned by ancient authors to have held the quaestorship during an unknown period, an estimate is provided in the list of the last possible date for such an questorship.
This list is currently incomplete and only contain those who held the quaestorship between 509 - 100 BC.
Unless otherwise noted all information is from Broughton's The Magistrates of the Roman Republic
Date | Name | Notes |
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509 BC | Marcus Minucius Augurinus | |
<496 BC | Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis | Quaestor prior to his consulship in 495 BC |
485 BC | Caeso Fabius Vibulanus | |
459 BC | Aulus Cornelius | |
458 BC | Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus | |
446 BC | Lucius Valerius Potitus | First elected Quaestors according to Tacitus |
420 BC | - | Number of Quaestors increased to four |
414 BC | Publius Sestius (or Sextius) | |
409 BC | Publius Aelius | Plebeians are eligible to the Quaestorship |
391 BC | Spurius Carvilius | |
<316 BC | Appius Claudius Caecus | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
294 BC | Lucius Opimius Pansa | |
>267 BC | ? | Number of Quaestors increased to 10 |
<237 BC | Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
<236 BC | Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus II | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
c. 230 BC | Gnaeus Octavius Rufus | |
<222 BC | Gaius Terentius Varro | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
218 BC | Gaius Fulvius Flaccus | |
217 BC | Tiberius Sempronius Blaesus | |
216 BC | Lucius Atilius | |
214 BC | Lucius Caecilius Metellus | |
212 BC | Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus | |
209 BC | Gaius Flaminius | |
<206 BC | Gnaeus Tremellius Flaccus | Latest date as argued by Broughton.
Mentioned as ex-Quaestors in 205 BC |
204 BC | Marcus Porcius Cato | |
202 BC | Gaius Laelius | |
200 BC | Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica | Quaestor sometime between 204 - 199 BC |
<199 BC | Titus Quinctius Flaminius | Mentioned as ex-Quaestor in 198 BC |
<196 BC | Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
196 BC | Lucius Aurelius | |
<195 BC | Lucius Aemilius Paullus | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
194 BC | Lucius Postumius Tympanus | |
190 BC | Gaius Furius Aculeo | |
<188 BC | Quintus Petilius Spurnius | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
188 BC | Quintus Fabius Buteo | |
167 BC | Lucius Cornelius Scipio | |
154 BC | Terentius Varro | |
152 BC | Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus | |
150 BC | Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus | |
148 BC | Lucius Fulcinnius | |
146 BC | Gaius Publilius | |
145 BC | Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus | |
143 BC | Lucius Tremellius Scrofa | |
142 BC | Lucius Tremellius Scrofa II | |
137 BC | Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus | |
134 BC | Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus | |
132 BC | Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus | |
126 BC | Gaius Sempronius Gracchus | |
<120 BC | Gaius Marius | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
120 BC | Publius Albius | |
119 BC | Marcus Annius | |
117 BC | Marcus Aurelius Scaurus | Conjectured date by Broughton |
113 BC | Marcus Antonius | |
111 BC | Publius Sextius | |
<109 BC | Lucius Licinius Crassus | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
107 BC | Lucius Cornelius Sulla | |
<105 BC | Gaius Claudius Pulcher | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
105 BC | Gnaeus Octavius Ruso | |
104 BC | Lucius Appuleius Saturnius | |
<102 BC | Marcus Livius Drusus | Latest date as argued by Broughton |
102 BC | Gaius Norbanus | |
>101 BC | Gaius Fundanius | Alternativly dated in 89 BC |
101 BC | Aulus Gabinius | |
100 BC | Lucius Cornelius Lentulus | |
81 BC | - | Number of Quaestors increased to 20 |
References
- ^ e.g. Livy, Ab urbe condita
- ^ Broughton, T. Robert S. (1952). The magistrates of the Roman Republic. American Philological Association. OCLC 1120836609.