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The result of the move request was: page moved. Cleanup of both articles is probably called for and there is probably a need to rename the uncle's article based on this one.
Vegaswikian (
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02:26, 30 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Well that would seem to confirm my original preference for "Minor" over "(minor)", though it also seems to support "Minor" more than "the Younger" (since Britannica gives Minor as part of the name, and "the Younger" in brackets after it as what seems to be just an explanation of what "Minor" means).--
Kotniski (
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12:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Better to use the non-specialist the Younger in the title and the name used by specialists in the body of the text. Most people would otherwise think that Minor is part of the name, when it's actually a disambiguation.
AJRG (
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12:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Looking at the bizarrely uninformative first sentence ('received citizenship the same time as his uncle' is surely not the best and most succinct way to identify this interesting figure), I'd say the article has bigger problems than the awkward issue of naming.
Cynwolfe (
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21:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)reply
I'm neutral about the idea of stitching the two back together, though I would say that they are often confused, and sorting them out on the same page wouldn't be a bad idea. But this could also be accomplished separately.
There is a spectacularly detailed French article on the elder Balbus: Françoise des Boscs-Plateaux, “L. Cornelius Balbus de Gadès: La carrière méconnue d’un Espagnol à l’époque des guerres civiles (1er siècle av. J.–C.)," Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 30 (1994) 7–35, which I looked at a couple of years ago and now find available
here. The article linked to by AJRG gives a fair enough overview but should not be used as a source to cite. It undermines its credibility by saying things like "he was a famous Balbi" instead of "he was a famous Balbus," and is a little imprecise about chronology: Balbus was Pompey's man first, and it would've been after Pompey left Spain following the Sertorian Wars in 72 that Balbus headed toward Rome with him. Not with Caesar, who according to
Broughton was most likely still trucking around Greece and Asia Minor after the incident with the pirates.
Curiously, PMA, Broughton doesn't show either of these guys as praetor in 43. The minor Balbus was a quaestor in 44, presumably a proquaestor in 43, and a promagistrate in Spain again in 40, when the elder Balbus was suffect consul without having held previous office. Still, even if it was by appointment, it's pretty staggering to think that it was politically feasible for a naturalized citizen to hold the consulship in the 1st century BC. Says something about ancient Rome that is often overlooked. In the U.S., a nation of immigrants, a naturalized citizen still can't be president. I think this is one of the points regarding Balbus's citizenship: that a Roman is a Roman by law, not by blood.
Cynwolfe (
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17:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)reply
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a
requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: page moved. Cleanup of both articles is probably called for and there is probably a need to rename the uncle's article based on this one.
Vegaswikian (
talk)
02:26, 30 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Well that would seem to confirm my original preference for "Minor" over "(minor)", though it also seems to support "Minor" more than "the Younger" (since Britannica gives Minor as part of the name, and "the Younger" in brackets after it as what seems to be just an explanation of what "Minor" means).--
Kotniski (
talk)
12:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Better to use the non-specialist the Younger in the title and the name used by specialists in the body of the text. Most people would otherwise think that Minor is part of the name, when it's actually a disambiguation.
AJRG (
talk)
12:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Looking at the bizarrely uninformative first sentence ('received citizenship the same time as his uncle' is surely not the best and most succinct way to identify this interesting figure), I'd say the article has bigger problems than the awkward issue of naming.
Cynwolfe (
talk)
21:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)reply
I'm neutral about the idea of stitching the two back together, though I would say that they are often confused, and sorting them out on the same page wouldn't be a bad idea. But this could also be accomplished separately.
There is a spectacularly detailed French article on the elder Balbus: Françoise des Boscs-Plateaux, “L. Cornelius Balbus de Gadès: La carrière méconnue d’un Espagnol à l’époque des guerres civiles (1er siècle av. J.–C.)," Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 30 (1994) 7–35, which I looked at a couple of years ago and now find available
here. The article linked to by AJRG gives a fair enough overview but should not be used as a source to cite. It undermines its credibility by saying things like "he was a famous Balbi" instead of "he was a famous Balbus," and is a little imprecise about chronology: Balbus was Pompey's man first, and it would've been after Pompey left Spain following the Sertorian Wars in 72 that Balbus headed toward Rome with him. Not with Caesar, who according to
Broughton was most likely still trucking around Greece and Asia Minor after the incident with the pirates.
Curiously, PMA, Broughton doesn't show either of these guys as praetor in 43. The minor Balbus was a quaestor in 44, presumably a proquaestor in 43, and a promagistrate in Spain again in 40, when the elder Balbus was suffect consul without having held previous office. Still, even if it was by appointment, it's pretty staggering to think that it was politically feasible for a naturalized citizen to hold the consulship in the 1st century BC. Says something about ancient Rome that is often overlooked. In the U.S., a nation of immigrants, a naturalized citizen still can't be president. I think this is one of the points regarding Balbus's citizenship: that a Roman is a Roman by law, not by blood.
Cynwolfe (
talk)
17:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a
requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.