147. Tacitus (Annal. xi. 22) seems to consider twenty as the
highest number of quaestors; and Dion (1. xliii. [c. 47] p.
374) insinuates that, if the dictator Caesar once created
forty, it was only to facilitate the payment of an immense
debt of gratitude Yet the augmentation which he made of
praetors subsisted under the succeeding reigns.