List of Roman quaestors
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The following is a list of quaestors in ancient Rome, as reported by ancient sources and compiled by the scholar Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton.e.g. Livy, Ab urbe condita{{Cite book|last=Broughton, T. Robert S.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1120836609|title=The magistrates of the Roman Republic|date=1952|publisher=American Philological Association|oclc=1120836609}}
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
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Date | Name
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509 BC
Gaius Veturius Geminus Cicurinus | | |
<496 BC
|Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis |Quaestor prior to his consulship in 495 BC | |
485 BC | Caeso Fabius Vibulanus
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459 BC | Aulus Cornelius
Quintus Servilius Priscus Structus | |
458 BC | Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus
Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca | |
446 BC
|First elected Quaestors according to Tacitus | |
420 BC
| - |Number of Quaestors increased to four | |
414 BC
|Publius Sestius (or Sextius) | | |
409 BC
|Plebeians are eligible to the Quaestorship | |
391 BC
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<316 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
294 BC
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>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
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<222 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
218 BC
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217 BC
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216 BC
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214 BC
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212 BC
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209 BC
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<206 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton. Mentioned as ex-Quaestors in 205 BC | |
204 BC
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202 BC
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200 BC
|Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica |Quaestor sometime between 204 - 199 BC | |
<199 BC
|Mentioned as ex-Quaestor in 198 BC | |
<196 BC
|Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus |Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
196 BC
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<195 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
194 BC
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190 BC
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<188 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
188 BC
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167 BC
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154 BC
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152 BC
|Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus | | |
150 BC
|Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus | | |
148 BC
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146 BC
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145 BC
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143 BC
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142 BC
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137 BC
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134 BC
|Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus | | |
132 BC
|Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus | | |
126 BC
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<120 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
120 BC
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119 BC
|Marcus Annius or Gnaeus Aufidius | Aufidius date given by John T. Graves in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | |
117 BC
|Conjectured date by Broughton | |
113 BC
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111 BC
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<109 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
107 BC
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<105 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
105 BC
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104 BC
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<102 BC
|Latest date as argued by Broughton | |
102 BC
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>101 BC
|Alternativly dated in 89 BC | |
101 BC
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100 BC
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus | | |
84 BC | |
81 BC
| - |Number of Quaestors increased to 20 |