List of Roman quaestors

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

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 a 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

Date NameNotes509 BCMarcus Minucius Augurinus Gaius Veturius Geminus Cicurinus<496 BCAppius Claudius Sabinus InregillensisQuaestor prior to his consulship in 495 BC 485 BCCaeso Fabius Vibulanus Lucius Valerius Potitus 459 BC Aulus Cornelius Quintus Servilius Priscus Structus 458 BC Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca446 BCLucius Valerius Potitus Mamercus Aemilius MamercinusFirst elected Quaestors according to Tacitus420 BC -Number of Quaestors increased to four414 BCPublius Sestius (or Sextius)409 BCPublius Aelius Caeso Fabius Ambustus

Publius Papius

Quintus SiliusPlebeians are eligible to the Quaestorship391 BCSpurius Carvilius<316 BCAppius Claudius CaecusLatest date as argued by Broughton294 BCLucius Opimius Pansa>267 BC?Number of Quaestors increased to 10<237 BCQuintus Fabius Maximus VerrucosusLatest date as argued by Broughton<236 BCQuintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus IILatest date as argued by Broughtonc. 230 BCGnaeus Octavius Rufus<222 BCGaius Terentius VarroLatest date as argued by Broughton218 BCGaius Fulvius Flaccus Lucius Lucretius217 BCTiberius Sempronius Blaesus216 BCLucius Atilius Lucius Furius Bibaculus214 BCLucius Caecilius Metellus212 BCGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus209 BCGaius Flaminius<206 BCGnaeus Tremellius Flaccus Marcus Valerius FaltoLatest date as argued by Broughton. Mentioned as ex-Quaestors in 205 BC204 BCMarcus Porcius Cato202 BCGaius Laelius200 BCPublius Cornelius Scipio NasicaQuaestor sometime between 204 - 199 BC<199 BCTitus Quinctius FlaminiusMentioned as ex-Quaestor in 198 BC<196 BCLucius Cornelius Scipio AsiaticusLatest date as argued by Broughton196 BCLucius Aurelius Quintus Fabius Labeo<195 BCLucius Aemilius PaullusLatest date as argued by Broughton194 BCLucius Postumius Tympanus190 BCGaius Furius Aculeo<188 BCQuintus Petilius SpurniusLatest date as argued by Broughton188 BCQuintus Fabius Buteo or Quintus Fabius Maximus167 BCLucius Cornelius Scipio154 BCTerentius Varro152 BCPublius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus150 BCGnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus148 BCLucius Fulcinnius146 BCGaius Publilius145 BCGaius Sempronius Tuditanus143 BCLucius Tremellius Scrofa142 BCLucius Tremellius Scrofa II137 BCTiberius Sempronius Gracchus134 BCQuintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus132 BCQuintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus126 BCGaius Sempronius Gracchus<120 BCGaius MariusLatest date as argued by Broughton120 BCPublius Albius119 BCMarcus Annius or Gnaeus Aufidius Aufidius date given by John T. Graves in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology117 BCMarcus Aurelius ScaurusConjectured date by Broughton113 BCMarcus Antonius111 BCPublius Sextius<109 BCLucius Licinius Crassus Quintus Mucius Scaevola

Gaius Servilius GlauciaLatest date as argued by Broughton107 BCLucius Cornelius Sulla<105 BCGaius Claudius Pulcher Gnaeus Servilius CaepioLatest date as argued by Broughton105 BCGnaeus Octavius Ruso104 BCLucius Appuleius Saturnius Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo<102 BCMarcus Livius Drusus Lucius Veturius Philo

or Lucius Publilius PhiloLatest date as argued by Broughton102 BCGaius Norbanus>101 BCGaius FundaniusAlternatively dated in 89 BC101 BCAulus Gabinius100 BCLucius Cornelius Lentulus Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus

Quintus Servilius Caepio84 BC Titus Aufidius per Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology81 BC -Number of Quaestors increased to 20

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