a magistrate , who , after administering the quaestorship at Rome , was associated with a proconsul in the administration of a province , a proquaestor : qui et legatus et pro quaestore fuisset, Cic.Verr. 1, 4, 11: cum Alexandriae pro quaestore essem, id.Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 4, 11.—Abbreviated, Proq., Lentul. ap. Cic.Fam. 12, 15, 2.— Plur. : proconsul cum quaestoribus provequaestoribus, Cic.Phil. 10, 11, 26.