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quaestor
(Latin: "investigator") In ancient Rome, an officer appointed by a consul as his deputy. Around 450 BC they became magistrates, a class of high-level government administrators that included the consuls, praetors, and prefects. Quaestors, the lowest level of this class, were elected by the people. After 421 there were four quaestors, two public treasurers and two who assisted the consuls, accompanying them to war and taking charge of supplies and payment of troops. From Augustus' time there were 20 quaestors, many of whom acted as finance officers and assistants to provincial governors.
Quito
City (pop., 1997 est.: 1,488,00), capital of Ecuador. Situated on the lower slopes of the Pichincha, a volcano that last erupted in 1666, it lies in a narrow Andean valley at an altitude of 9,350 ft (2,850 m). A pre-Columbian town, it was captured by the Incas in 1487 and taken by the Spanish in 1534. It is the oldest of all S. Amer. capitals and preserves much of its colonial atmosphere. In 1535 the Franciscans established an art school there, the first of its kind in S. America. One of Ecuador's two major industrial centers, it produces textiles and light consumer goods. It is the site of several institutions of higher learning.
quoits
Game in which flattened rings of iron or circles of rope (both called quoits) are thrown at an upright pin (hob) in an attempt to ring it or come as near to it as possible. Quoits may have been played in Roman-occupied Britain (1st-5th cent. AD), and it may have given rise to horseshoe pitching.
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