In rhetorical theory, the quaestiones (Latin: "questions") are the points being debated. Quaestiones is also the title of numerous literary works, including in chronological order: the Tusculanae Disputationes of Roman statesman Cicero, around 45 BC the Quaestiones of Roman jurist Sextus Caecilius Africanus, around 160 the Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate, 1256-1259, see List of works by Thomas Aquinas the Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae of English physicist Isaac Newton (1661)