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Headword:
*koiai/stwr
Adler number: kappa,2533
Translated headword: quaestor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Managing the office of quaestor, which I think got its name amongst the Romans from searching-out."[1]
Greek Original:*koiai/stwr. th\n tou= koiai/stwros die/pwn a)rxh/n, h(\n oi)=mai a)po\ tou= a)nazhtei=n w(=de lele/xqai para\ *(rwmai/ois.
Notes:
Also spelled
kuai/stwr. On this Roman office see generally OCD(4) s.v. and
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium s.v.; and cf. under
omicron 543,
pi 2474,
tau 951,
tau 956.
[1] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 18.3 Blockley (158-161); on Trajan, Roman envoy to the Persians in late summer 574; cf. Blockley (272, note 197). Though the headword itself is transliterated from Latin into Greek, this etymological gloss on it is only intelligible if the Greek verb used,
a)nazhte/w, is converted into the Latin
quaero. On Trajan see PLRE IIIb s.v. Traianus(3).
A.P. Kazhdan, ed. et al., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, (Oxford 1991)
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
Keywords: biography; constitution; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 December 2007@07:07:45.
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