[1007] Lydus de Mag. i. 27 κρινάντων Ῥωμαίων πολεμεῖν τοῖς συμμαχήσασι Πύρρῳ τῷ Ἠπειρὼτῃ κατεσκευάσθη στόλος καὶ προεβλήθησαν οἱ καλοὺμενοι κλασσικοὶ (οἱονεὶ ναυάρχαι) τῷ ἀριθμῷ δυοκαίδεκα κυαίστωρες. Lydus may be right about the original number, although it has been sometimes thought a confused reminiscence of the raising of the number from four to eight.
[1008] Vell. ii. 94; cf. Cic. pro Mur. 8, 18 “tu illam (provinciam habuisti), cui, cum quaestores sortiuntur, etiam acclamari solet, Ostiensem non tam gratiosam et illustrem quam negotiosam et molestam.”
[1009] Tac. Ann. iv. 27. In 24 A.D. a rising near Brundisium was repressed by “Curtius Lupus quaestor, cui provincia vetere ex more calles evenerant.” Mommsen (Staatsr. ii. p. 571), following Lipsius, would read Cales, the oldest Latin colony in Campania, and therefore supposes that this quaestor’s functions extended over the whole of South Italy. The woods and forests was the provincia which the Senate destined for Caesar as proconsul (Suet. Caes. 19 “opera optimatibus data est ut provinciae futuris consulibus minimi negotii, id est, silvae callesque, decernerentur”).
[1010] Plut. Sert. 4.
[1011] The last to remain were the Gallic and Ostian, which, as Italian provinciae, were abolished by the Emperor Claudius in 44 A.D. (Suet. Claud. 24).
[1012] So Sertorius, as Gallic quaestor in the Marsic war, was instructed στρατιώτας ... καταλέγειν καὶ ὅπλα ποιεῖσθται (Plut. Sert. 4).
[1013] Cicero speaks of Vatinius, when holding this post, being sent to Puteoli on some other business (in Vat. 5, 12), but this does not show that he was holding an Italian quaestorship. See Momms. Staatsr. ii. p. 573 n. 3.
[1014] Liv. iv. 8; see p. 115.
[1015] ib. vii. 22 (C. Marcius Rutilus); cf. x. 8.
[1016] ib. viii. 12 “ut alter utique ex plebe, cum eo [ventum sit] ut utrumque plebeium fieri liceret, censor crearetur.” Madvig and Mommsen would omit “ventum sit,” and so make the Publilian law open both places in the college to Plebeians.