Quaestor
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A quaestor was a public official in ancient Rome. There were various types of quaestors, with the title used to describe greatly different offices at different times.
Ruins of the Temple of Saturn, the location of the aerarium, in the Forum at the foot of the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
The repurposed ruins of the Tabularium (behind the fragmentary ruins of the Temple of Vespasian and Titus at right) constructed in 78 BC near the aerarium as the state record office.
Cato the Younger served as one of the urban quaestors in 64 BC, during which he acquired a reputation for stern honesty.
Quaestor sacri palatii
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The quaestor sacri palatii was the senior legal authority in the late Roman Empire and early Byzantium, responsible for drafting laws. In the later Byzantine Empire, the office of the quaestor was alt
Quaestor
…financial duties in the provinces, but over time, it faded away in the face of the expanding imperial bureaucracy. A position with a similar name (the quaestor sacri palatii) emerged during the Constantinian period with judicial responsibilities. Quaestor derives from the Latin verb quaero, quaerere, meaning "to inquire…
The insignia of the quaestor sacri palatii, from the Notitia Dignitatum: the codicil of office on a stand, surrounded by law scrolls