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It appears hereby that Lucius Pompeius was QuaJ- 
tor zyErarti, tho’ only of the Finances of the City 
lnduftria , and not of the Emperor under whom he 
liv’d. But the greateft Difficulty arifes from PET. 
ALIM, where our Authors fuppofe the Engraver 
may have left out the Stop between the Letter P 
and the Letters ET ; fo that we ffiould read it, Qutef- 
toris (yErarii public't et Alimentorum •, and then 
we have two different Dignities of Lucius Pompeius ; 
that of Quafior of the public Taxes, and that of 
Quaftor of the Provifions, both regarding the City of 
lnduftria . Several other Infcriptions are alfo pro- 
duc’d, to prove the Office of Quceft or Aliment orum--, 
and a great deal of Reading is introduc’d, to- 
ffiew, that the Quafior Alimentorum was fome- 
times underftood to be an Officer having the Care 
of the public Allowance for bringing up Chil- 
dren; and that at other Times his Office was un- 
derftood to be the procuring all Sorts of Provifions-. 
for the Ufe of the Emperor’s Troops. 
Paffing by his Office of zyEdilis and Duumvir , 
we find he prefided likewife over the Receipt of the 
Taxes, by this Addrefs to him, 
CVRATORI 
KALENDARIORVM. RBI. P. 
The Days fixed for Payment of the Taxes and Debts 
were regifter’d in the public Calendars, and Creditors 
ufually demanded their Intereft on the Kalends , or 
fir ft Day of every Month: Whence the Regifter of 
the Debtors, and the Sums due, or the Tribute to be 
paid by Particulars to the Public, and indeed the 
general 
