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quaestiones

n. (plural of quaestio English)

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Quaestiones

In rhetorical theory, Quaestiones (Latin:Questions), is a term for debatable points around which disputes are centered.

It is also the title of numerous literary works, including in chronological order:

  • the Tusculanae Quaestiones of Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, around 45 BC
  • the Quaestiones of Roman jurist Sextus Caecilius Africanus, around 160
  • the Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate of Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas, 1256-1259
  • the Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae of English physicist Isaac Newton (1661)

Usage examples of "quaestiones".

Until Sulla as Dictator established permanent quaestiones, there does not appear to have been a court to hear testamentary disputes, which meant the urban praetor must have had the final say.