150. Cum patris nomine et epistolas ipse dictaret, et edicta
conscriberet, 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. Trajan intrusted the same care
to Hadrian, his quaestor and cousin. See Dodwell,
Praelection. Cambden. x. xi. p. 362-394