Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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. Among other duties, that of promoting the public games was incumbent on the ediles, and cost them large sums of money. Later, under the empire, their functions were distributed among special officials, and their importance dwindled.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of aedile.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Rom. Antiq.) See ædile.
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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.”
“Marcus Agrippa, when he was edile, opened one hundred and seventy private baths, for the use of the people.”
“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.”
“[24] Bibulus was Caesar's colleague, both as edile and consul.”
“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.”
“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
“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”
“He soon after held the important offices of tribune, quæstor, and edile.”
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
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