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Updated: June 25, 2025
While the quaestor was selling the Africans, according to the command of the general, he found among them a full-grown youth remarkably handsome; and hearing that he was of royal blood, he sent him to Scipio.
On their arrival they were all immediately thrown into chains, and ordered to lay before the quaestor an account of all the gold and silver they had. There were seventy pounds of gold, and three thousand two hundred of silver.
Against all rules of fashionable life, The rogue had dared to sleep with his own wife. He governed the province in quality of quaestor for ten years, with singular moderation and justice. IV. As soon as an opportunity of revenge offered, he readily joined in Galba's enterprises, and at the same time conceived hopes of obtaining the imperial dignity for himself.
His soldiers immediately slew them; and, burning for the booty of Asia and attached to their fortunate leader, they, when without venturing to hint at the means by which he could avenge it, he complained of the wrong done to him, clamorously called on him to lead them to Rome. All his officers, except one quaestor, left him; but he set out with six legions and was joined by Pompeius on the way.
While the rest were besieging Cirta, the quaestor with the cavalry proceeded against him, overcame him in a few cavalry battles, and won over the other quaestor. After these experiences Sextius, who had secured some fresh reinforcements, risked battle again, conquered the quaestor in his turn, and shut up Laelius, who was overrunning the country, within his fortifications.
Without sentence or trial there died on this day four magistrates of the Roman people a praetor, a quaestor, and two tribunes of the people and a number of other well-known men, some of whom belonged to good families.
"While Cicero was quaestor in Sicily the first public office which he ever held, and the only one to which he was then eligible, being but just thirty years old he paid a visit to Syracuse, then among the greatest cities of the world.
Immediately, however, his quaestor was charged with several misdemeanors, for the purpose of implicating Caesar himself. Indeed, an accusation was soon after preferred against him by Lucius Antistius, tribune of the people; but by making an appeal to the tribune's colleagues, he succeeded in having the prosecution suspended during his absence in the service of the state.
Accordingly their leaders the praetor Lucius Quinctius, the same who seven years before had exerted himself for the restoration of the tribunician power, and the former quaestor Gaius Caesar supported the Gabinian proposals.
All those he banished, that none for the future might evade by such artifices the intention and efficacy of the law. He likewise dismissed another from the office of quaestor, for repudiating, the day after he had been lucky in drawing his lot, a wife whom he had married only the day before.
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