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Definition of Aedile
1. Noun. (historical Ancient Rome) An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings and the regulation of festivals; also supervised markets and the supply of grain and water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aedile
1. a magistrate of ancient Rome [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aedile
Literary usage of Aedile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cicero: A Sketch of His Life and Works by Hannis Taylor, Mary Lillie Taylor Hunt (1916)
"... aedile,5 whose chief duties involved, with three colleague: the general
superintendence of the city police, the regu lation of the games, ..."
2. History of Julius Caesar by Napoleon (1865)
"Two years afterwards (689), nominated curule aedile with 'Bibulus, he displayed
a magnificence which excited the acclamations of the crowd, always greedy of ..."
3. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... aedile 689/65, praetor 692/62, governed Asia from 693/61 to 696/58, was Pompey's
legate in Sardinia 698/56, Caesar's in Gaul and Britain 700/54-702/52, ..."
4. A Smaller History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of by Sir William Smith (1899)
"In 69 BC Cicero was aedile and in 66 praetor. In the latter year he delivered
his celebrated address to the people in favour of the ..."
5. The History of Rome by Livy (1872)
"... and thus, neither dissembling what he preferred, nor yet making direct
application for it, he was appointed curule aedile with Lucius Papirius Cursor. ..."
6. Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to His by William Henry Smyth (1856)
"... to refer to some earlier Vettius than the urban praetor of BC 59, who, from
the ear of wheat and the senatorial stamp, struck it when serving as aedile. ..."
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