Talk:Quaestor

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Moved information on European Parliament Quaestors to new page, created new disambiguation and added page on Quaestor (St Andrews University). Davidkinnen 21:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Pronounciation? 87.10.129.135 14:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

how come the min. age for patrician and plebeian quaestores is the same, yet receive separate mentions in the same sentence? did this result from an edit? Bigtrick 22:18, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey,quesor(speled "chestor") is also a police rank superior to the "comisariat" here in Romania! AdrianCo 19:33, 7 November 2007 (UTC)AdrianCo

States that Roman quaestors were entitled to fasces and lictor - almost certainly not, as they lacked imperium EnglishBriarRose (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:43, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Adding in a large update as part of a course. Specifically adding sections on powers and responsibilities similar to the sections in other Roman government offices as well as a section of notable figures. There are a number of minor changes as well. Scoughla (talk) 16:46, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Delete Romance-language versions?
I suggest that the Romance-language versions of this word be deleted from the modern usage section. They're not actually using the word. - Eponymous-Archon (talk) 19:01, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Imperial Quaestors
During the Principate, viz. 30 BC - AD c. 250, the Republican quaestor was still part of the cursus honorum, although its primary importance had become the primary manner which enrolled a man into the Senate. (The other manner was thru adlectio, or promotion by the Emperor into the Senate, with seniority as having held one of the traditional Republican magistracies.) Ten of the 20 quaestors were assigned to the public provinces, while two were assigned for a period to the aerarium, at least one assigned to attend to the Emperor himself, & each of the consuls had two quaestors to attend to him. So there is ample material to devote to a section covering the history of this office between the Republic & Constantine the Great's reign. -- llywrch (talk) 06:29, 6 August 2018 (UTC)


 * If you have any sources so attesting, could you forward them to me? I'd be happy to expand on that topic. Ifly6 (talk) 21:39, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , the sources I would use are (1) Richard Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton: University Press, 1984); (2) Fergus Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC - AD 337) (Cornell University, 1992); & (3) the relevant article at Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, which is available at de.wikisource. (It's in German, but there are several good online translation tools.) Further, any decent prosopographical guide should have useful information. There are some important resources for specific points I can recommend if you need them, but those will get you started. -- llywrch (talk) 22:34, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll put taking a look at it on my list. I'm not at all familiar with the imperial period (it's just not in my interests). As of right now, the OCD mentions the imperial quaestors very vaguely; I included descriptions of what material was present there into something of a sparse Principate section in the current article.
 * If you have access to those sources, feel free to make the additions! Ifly6 (talk) 23:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Quaesitor
Quaesitor is a stub that I'm guessing might need merged/redirected here, but I'm not well informed enough to proceed. Regards, Kevin1776 (talk) 21:29, 21 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Quaesitor is mentioned in the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium under quaestor, but it makes no clear reference that these are related offices. The title "quaestor" was obviously used for very different offices at different times (like how modern "consuls" are diplomatic officers rather than dual-presidents). Specifically, ODB says: In 539 Justinian I introduced another office called quaesitor (called also simply quaestor), involving police and judicial power in Constantinople, esp. control over newcomers settling in the capital. I would prefer keeping it separate – with a Template:For link perhaps – as this seems at least somewhat different from the classical quaestor's administrative role. Ifly6 (talk) 21:45, 9 March 2022 (UTC)