Legal Definition and Related Resources of Quaestores classici

(Lat.) In Roman law. Officers intrusted with the care of the public money. Their duties consisted in making the necessary payments from the aerarium, and receiving the public revenues. Of both they had to keep correct accounts in their tabulae publieae. Demands which any one might have on the aerarium, 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 quaestores of cities and of provinces, and quaestor es of the army; the latter were in fact paymasters.

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This definition of Quaestores Classici is based on the The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary . This entry needs to be proofread.

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