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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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
Can you briefly sketch how this would have looked?
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @PetreRaleigh
So each Roman magistrate or pro-magistrate with imperium (so Consuls, pro-consuls, praetors and pro-praetors) seems to get a quaestor assigned to them to handle the financial side of their commands (pay soldiers, buy supplies, etc). 2 more managed the main treasury in Rome
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @PetreRaleigh
As the number of provinces increases, you end up with more imperium-havers than quaestors. What it seems like is happening, pre-Sulla, is that when a magistrate is prorogued (extended in command) his quaestor is as well.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @PetreRaleigh
So, Gaius Gracchus, for instance, serves two years as a quaestor in Spain. Sulla was Marius' quaestor for at least three years 107, 106 and 105.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @PetreRaleigh
We must assume - though I do not think we are told - that the Senate decided which quaestors to prorogue and which to replace with the new quaestors of the year, though Polo and Fernandez note that it seems like quaestors don't really ever serve longer than their imperium-havers.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @PetreRaleigh
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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