QUESTOR (quaro, I seek), a name given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. Varro defines both as: Questores a querendo, qui conquirent publicas pecunias et maleficia—"Questors (from their seeking), who collect the public monies and investigate crimes." The one class, the questores classici, therefore, had to collect and keep the
public revenues; the other, called the questores parricidii, were public accusers who convicted those guilty of any capital offence, and carried the sentence into execution.