The title of aedile seems to have been avoided because it had been in use in the days of autonomy, and the authorities thought it prudent to suppress everything that would suggest the former state of independence.
The tribunes proposed to the commons, and the commons ordered that this should be as if the aedile himself had sworn.
To this commission was appointed Lucius Oppius Salinator, who had been plebeian aedile the year before.
Some scribes and runners belonging to the aediles were found, on the testimony of an informer, to have privately conveyed money out of the treasury, and were condemned, not without disgrace to the aedile Lucullus.
Sulla said that the people would not give him the praetorship because they wished him to be aedile first.
Their bodies were thrown into the Tiber--not by the mob but by the magistrates; the hand of an aedile committed that of Tiberius to the stream.
The aedile had the charge of the public edifices of the city, and of the games spectacles, and shows which were exhibited in them.
His office as aedile gave him the necessary authority.
Appius the father quarrelled with Caelius and egged on others to accuse him, though he was curule aedile at the time.
Sempronius Gracchus as aedile had that year spent enormous sums on his ludi, and had squeezed money (it does not appear how) out of the subject populations of Italy, as well as the provinces, to entertain the Roman people.
Our friend Caelius Rufus was elected curule aedile while he was in correspondence with Cicero, and his letters give us a good idea of the condition of the mind of an ambitious young man who is bent on making the most of himself.
Caesar undoubtedly borrowed largely, for his expenditure as aedile was enormous,[482] and he had no private fortune of any considerable amount.
Footnote 480: We have some details of the ridiculously lavish expenditure of this aedile in Pliny, N.
Before the hearing the elections for the next year were held and Hortensius elected consul, but Cicero was returned as aedile in spite of all the efforts of his opponents to weaken his prestige by a defeat at the polls.
They announce that a duumvir or aedile or flamen will exhibit twenty or thirty pairs of combatants on the calends of May or the ides of April.
Anubis must have been a common sight in the streets, when the aedile M.
The aediletook the money, gracious lady, and Dion said that he asked no further questions, but allowed the praefect to be borne away.
They had to parley with the aedile who was in command, and to give him all the money which my gracious mistress did entrust to them for that purpose.
One side--the shortest--of it was occupied by the prefecture, in which the Aedile and Quaestor lived.
He was somewhat astonished not to find these city authorities there, and as the Aedile was president of the theatre, they could not begin before he came.
Signor de Fredis went at once to the Prefect of the City, who followed him in company with the Aedile and some learned antiquaries.
A small sum was appropriated from the public treasury for these games; but an Aedile usually expended much from his own purse to make the show magnificent, and thus to gain votes for the next office, that of Praetor.
They not only did this, but when anaedile died on the last day of the year, they chose another to fill out the closing hours.
The next year Agrippa agreed to be made aedile and without taking anything from the public treasury repaired all the public buildings and all the roads, cleaned out the sewers, and sailed through them underground into the Tiber.
A little while before he had said that he chose the side of the optimates and for that reason wished to beaedile rather than tribune; but now he went over to the side of the rabble.
He later on brought Favonius the aedile to the same place on some small charge, in order that he might have a companion in his disgrace.
He had been aedile in 54, and asaedile he had already been magnificent in prodigality.
He had made himself popular by his profusion when aedile in providing shows for the mob.
The year of Milo's tribunate being over, Clodius was chosen aedile without further trouble; and, instead of being the victim of a prosecution, he at once impeached Milo for the interruption of the Comitia on the 18th of November.
The aedile was bound also, on complaint laid by a prostitute, to sentence any customer of hers to pay the sum due to her according to law.
It was the duty of the aedile to arrest, punish, and drive out of the city all loose prostitutes who were not inscribed on his book.
When the aedile Hostilius attempted to break open the door of the prostitute Mamilia, on his return from a gay dinner, the latter drove him off with stones, and was sustained by the courts.
Bassus[294] was aedile and quattuorvir at Herculaneum and then after holding the tribuneship of a legion is found next at Praeneste as a quinquennalis.
Sextilius Rufus,[307] aedile twice in Nola, is quinquennalis in Pompeii.
Geminius Niger was successively aedile and duovir with a break of one year between.
Dindius appears twice also, once with the office of aedile, but two years later seemingly as aedile again, which must be a mistake.
Barronius Sura went directly to quinquennalis without being aedile or quaestor, in Aquinum.
It was while he held the office of Aedilethat he made his first appearance as public prosecutor, and brought to justice the most important criminal of the day.
But the aedile ostentatiously drew forth his own napkin, which was not, indeed, of so fine a linen, but in which the fringe was twice as broad, and wiped his hands with the parade of a man who felt he was calling for admiration.
The invalid senator was too grave and too infirm for the proper fulfilment of his duty; the aedile Pansa was adequate enough to the task: but then, to choose the next in official rank to the senator, was an affront to the senator himself.
Agrippa, when aedile of Rome, banished all such terrible citizens.
But a rich man--it is the duty of an aedile to protect the rich!
In vain did the aedile command--in vain did the praetor lift his voice and proclaim the law.
Well, you must sup with me some evening; I have tolerable muraenae in my reservoir, and I ask Pansa the aedile to meet you.
The widow Fulvia and the spouse of the aedile were engaged in high and grave discussion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aedile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
