She gave an indefinite answer which nobody really understood.

In this review of Brutus's army, who was under the command of gallant men, not braver officers than true patriots, he tells us, "that Sextus, the questor, was paymaster, secretary at war, and commissary general; and that the sacred discipline of the Romans required the closest connexion, like that of father and son, to subsist between the general of an army and his questor.

Coordinate term: capital city

How idiotic it would be, if a Gastrologist, who classified all people according to the food they ate, were to define a grown man as a potatophile, or a herringophile, according to the favorite dish of one’s childhood, or youth.