(Hist.August.p.

130.) But in the provinces of the senate we may still discover a series of quaestors till the reign of Marcus Antoninus.

(See the Inscriptions of Gruter, the Epistles of Pliny, and a decisive fact in the Augustan History, p.

64.) From Ulpian we may learn, (Pandect.l.i.tit.

13,) that under the government of the house of Severus, their provincial administration was abolished; and in the subsequent troubles, the annual or triennial elections of quaestors must have naturally ceased.] [Footnote 149: Cum patris nomine et epistolas ipse dictaret, et edicta conscrib eret, orationesque in senatu recitaret, etiam quaestoris vice.
Sueton, in Tit.c.6.The office must have acquired new dignity, which was occasionally executed by the heir apparent of the empire.