I apologise if this is too basic a question, but Wikipedia seems to contradict itself! It says here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaestor that a Quaestor was entitled to one lictor and one fasces, but here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_honorum it says they wore the toga praetexta but had neither lictors nor fasces.
As far as I can see, quaestors were more senior civil servants that magistrates; they did not possess imperium, so why would they have the lictors/fasces?
Quaestors had neither lictors nor fasces.
Originally quaestors, as the name shows, were a kind of "investigators". But the right to fasces signified a right of deciding life and death, which was only appliable to praetors (i.e. "judges") and higher magistrates, i.e. consuls and dictators.
Also, on the matter of lictors, we perfectly know that even aediles plebis had no right to lictors, and only aediles curules had two lictors (without fasces!). As quaestors had lower rank compared to aediles, then they obviously had no lictors at all.
