I swear not a day goes by I do not learn some stupidly obvious thing I probably ought to have known years ago. Today's edition: Pro-quaestores, probably a thing. I always wondered because pre-Sulla it never seemed like there'd be enough quaestors. Well, there you go, I guess.
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Honestly looking at a century and a half now of reevaluating German scholarship has taught me that if a reconstruction of the Roman system seems simple, direct and rules-based, it is almost certainly wrong and one should assume ample BS ad-hoc-ery wherever possible.
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A little off topic: Its interesting to track how different titles gained / lost prominence over time during the course of different periods in Rome, demonstrating the ad hoc nature of titles / appointments / posts at macro time scale.
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