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== Quaestor ==
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The first official post was that of quaestor. Ever since the reforms of [[Sulla]], candidates had to be at least 30 years old to hold the office.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ryan |first=F. X. |date=1996 |title=The Minimum Age for the Quaestorship in the Late Republic |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24818285 |journal=Museum Helveticum |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=37–43 |jstor=24818285 |issn=0027-4054}}</ref> From the time of [[Augustus]] onwards, twenty quaestors served in the financial administration at Rome or as second-in-command to a governor in the provinces. They could also serve as the paymaster for a legion.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2012 |title=quaestor |encyclopedia=The Oxford classical dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |url=https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-5470 |editor-last1=Hornblower |editor-first1=Simon |edition=4th |page=1249 |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.5470 |isbn=978-0-19-954556-8 |oclc=959667246 |last2=Honoré |first2=Tony |last1=Badian |first1=Ernst |editor-first2=Antony |editor-last2=Spawforth |editor-first3=Esther |editor-last3=Eidinow}}</ref>