Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient Rome, a magistrate whose duty was originally the superintendence of public buildings and lands, out of which grew a large number of functions of administration and police.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) See
ædile .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
aedile .
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He who is burning with ambition to be edile, tribune, prætor, consul, or dictator, exclaims that he loves his country, while he loves only himself.
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Marcus Agrippa, when he was edile, opened one hundred and seventy private baths, for the use of the people.
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Cicero likewise seems to hint at this in a letter to Axius, where he says, that Caesar (7) had in his consulship secured to himself that arbitrary power [26] to which he had aspired when he was edile.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Cicero likewise seems to hint at this in a letter to Axius, where he says, that Caesar (7) had in his consulship secured to himself that arbitrary power [26] to which he had aspired when he was edile.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Neither priest nor edile would they encounter until their return to the same church-tower.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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[24] Bibulus was Caesar's colleague, both as edile and consul.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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CAIUS ALBUTIUS SILUS, of Novara [921], while, in the execution (529) of the office of edile in his native place, he was sitting for the administration of justice, was dragged by the feet from the tribunal by some persons against whom he was pronouncing a decree.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Scipio Africanus, (the elder,) at the age of sixteen distinguished himself at the battle of Ticinus; at twenty was made edile, and soon after pro-consul in Spain; at twenty-nine he won the great battle of
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He soon after held the important offices of tribune, quæstor, and edile.
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