I swear not a day goes by I do not learn some stupidly obvious thing I probably ought to have known years ago. Today's edition: Pro-quaestores, probably a thing. I always wondered because pre-Sulla it never seemed like there'd be enough quaestors. Well, there you go, I guess.
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Would it actually have been necessary to make this decision? Prorogued officials did not reduce the number of officials elected that year - correct? - so wouldn't the newly-elected quaestors be spoken for in the usual way?
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Exciting questions to which we do not know the answer. Polo and Fernandez imagine quaestors as being assigned to magistrates (by lot), so presumably the system would run more or less automatically in most years.
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In addition to handling the financial side of things, quaestors often get pulled by their imperium-haver to act as delegates or field commanders when necessary. Caesar does this a bunch.
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It makes sense, since any quaestor has already done their 10-minimum years of military service and has probably been a military tribune during some of that, so they're likely to be at least modestly capable of small assignments.
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