Ambrosius, Quaestor

A man named Ambrosius holding the office of quaestor, known from late-antique epistolary collections. A quaestor (in this period the quaestor of the sacred palace, or its equivalent at the Ostrogothic royal court) was the senior legal official responsible for drafting laws, edicts, and official correspondence in the ruler's name. An Ambrosius receives letters in this role at the court served by Cassiodorus's Variae in early sixth-century Ravenna, the Ostrogothic capital. Beyond his title he is otherwise little attested, and is known chiefly as a recipient of court correspondence; note that the indexing here may conflate more than one figure named Ambrosius across different collections, so claims about him should be treated cautiously.