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quaesturam

quaesturam is a Latin form of quaestura, meaning “quaestorship; public money”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.101: … a probata aut frugalitatis existimatione praeclara aut denique, id quod levissimum est, adsiduitate, qui ante quaesturam cum meretricibus lenonibusque vixisset, quaesturam ita gessisset quem ad modum cognovistis, Romae post quaest …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1.14.7: Aciliano vero ipsi plurimum vigoris industriae, quamquam in maxima verecundia. Quaesturam tribunatum praeturam honestissime percucurrit, ac iam pro se tibi necessitatem ambiendi remisit.

All forms of quaestura (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.