aedile
noun
one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
aedileship
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a word derived from
aedile.
Example Sentences
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Where is the aedileship that was conferred on him by the zealous efforts of all good men? who is there who does not now think that he acted virtuously by accident?
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The curule aediles, Caius Laetorius, and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus consul elect, who during his aedileship had been master of the horse, celebrated the Roman games, which were repeated for three days.
From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Titus Livius
The earliest age for holding each was, for the quaestorship, twenty-seven years; for the aedileship, thirty-seven; for the praetorship, forty; and for the consulship, forty-three.
From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert Franklin Pennell
From the quaestorship the official career of the senator led through the regular magistracies, the aedileship or tribunate, and the praetorship, to the consulship.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
In the same year there was established the curule aedileship.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
