ediles

Upon the whole, the institution, if wisely conducted, is capable of bearing fruit and ought to do so, and the laboring population of Paris should be grateful to the municipal council for the six million francs that our ediles have so generously voted for making this interesting work a success.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 Various

And he gave orders to the ediles not to permit, in future, any Roman to be present in the forum or circus unless they took off their short coats, and wore the toga.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The _ediles_ were so called from their care of the public buildings; they were either Plebeian or _curule_; the former, two in number, were appointed to be, as it were, the assistants of the tribunes of the commons, and to determine certain lesser causes committed to them; the latter, also two in number, were chosen from the Patricians and

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway

And he gave orders to the ediles not to permit, in future, any Roman to be present in the forum or circus unless they took off their short coats, and wore the toga.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

But how are our ediles to know whether a picture of a commoner, or of some inanimate and undistinguished object, by Degas or

Art Clive Bell 1922

But when I had seen this noble phalanx and company descending from the Capitol with many infantry, and had viewed all the bravery of the cars and the ediles, dressed in the old fashion, and had seen Senhor Giulio Cesarino pass with the standard of the city of Rome, on

Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

Beyond were gray quadrangular buildings, the stomach of Rome, through which, each noon, ediles passed, verifying the prices, the weights and measures of the market men, examining the fish and meats, the enormous cauliflowers that came from the suburbs,

Imperial Purple Edgar Saltus 1889

Under Tiberius, there were sixteen who administered justice, beside the consuls, six ediles, and ten tribunes of the people.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

The right then devolved on the consuls, afterwards on the praetor, and in certain cases on the curule and plebeian ediles, who were charged with the internal police of the city.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

This ancient prerogative of the Roman kings was transferred, in their respective offices, to the consuls and dictators, the censors and prætors; and a similar right was assumed by the tribunes of the people, the ediles, and the proconsuls.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765