Crossword-Solution: STORS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

When they wish to express those numerals in their own language, they have recourse to very uncouth and roundabout methods, saying for seven, _dui trins ta yeck_, two threes and one; for eight, _dui stors_, or two fours; and for nine, _desh sore but yeck_, or ten all but one.

When Cicero began his work, Consuls, Prætors, Ædiles, and Quæstors were still chosen by the votes of the citizens.

The great reward of proconsular rapine did not generally come till after the last step, though there were notable instances in which a Proprætor with proconsular authority could make a large fortune, as we shall learn when we come to deal with Verres, and though Ædiles, and even Quæstors, could find pickings.

There were at that time twenty Quæstors elected annually, some of whom remained in Rome; but most of the number were stationed about the Empire, there being always one as assistant to each Proconsul.

But to Cicero, and to young Quæstors in general, the great attraction of the office consisted in the fact that the aspirant having once become a Quæstor was a Senator for the rest of his life, unless he should be degraded by misconduct.