edile

/ ˈiːdaɪl /

noun

Neither priest nor edile would they encounter until their return to the same church-tower.

From the edile could be obtained the Licentia stupri, the right to the antique livery of shame.

He soon after held the important offices of tribune, quæstor, and edile.

Agrippa, in that year when he was edile, put the last hand to the magnificence of these works.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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