I.a magistrate, who, after administering the quœstorship at Rome, was associated with a proconsul in the administration of a province, a proquœstor: “qui et legatus et pro quaestore fuisset,” Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 11: “cum Alexandriae pro quaestore essem,” id. Ac. 2, 4, 11.—Abbreviated, Proq., Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 15, 2.—Plur.: “proconsul cum quaestoribus provequaestoribus,” Cic. Phil. 10, 11, 26.
prō-quaestōre , or, separately, prō quaestōre ,