fourfold, or something taken four times, or multiplied by four, on which account it is the converse of quadrination, or division by four.

**QUESTOR** (*quaero*, I seek), a name given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. Varro defines both as: *Quaestores a quaerendo, qui conquirrent publicas pecunias et maleficia*—“Questors (from their seeking), who collect the public monies and investigate crimes.” The one class, the *quaestores classici*, therefore, had to collect and keep the public revenues; the other, called the *quaestores parricidi*, were public accusers who convicted those guilty of any capital offence, and carried the sentence into execution.