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Elected officials of the Roman Republic who supervised the treasury and financial affairs of the state, its armies and its officers. The office may date back to the time of the kings of Rome. After about 420 B.C. there were four Quaestors elected each year, and after 267 B.C. there were ten. Some quaestors were assignned to work in the City, while others were assigned to the staffs of generals or governors oversee military finances.
In the reforms of Sulla of 81 B.C. the minimum age was set for a quaestorship was set at 28 for patricians and 30 for plebeians, and election to the quaestorship gave automatic membership in the Senate. Before that the Censors revised the rolls of the Senate less regularly than the annual induction of quaestors created. The number of quaestors was also raised to 20.