But the curule aedileship became immediately so far accessible to the plebeians, that it was held by patricians and plebeians alternately.
In this way the aedileship afforded an excellent opportunity to win public favor by an exhibition of generosity.
Eventually, the curule aedileship also was opened to them, and was held by patricians and plebeians in alternate years.
From the quaestorship the official career of the senator led through the regular magistracies, the aedileship or tribunate, and the praetorship, to the consulship.
He was only a candidate for the aedileship and legally ineligible for the consulate.
The aedileship of this year was highly distinguished, namely, that of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Aemilius Paulus.
Licinius Crassus had neither been consul nor praetor before he was appointed censor, he stepped from the aedileship to the censorship.
The term of his aedileship having expired, Caesar solicited the mission of transforming Egypt into a Roman province.
Cicero contrived without any great expenditure to make his aedileship a success.
The most celebrated was that erected by Scaurus in his aedileship 58 B.
The plebeian aedileship certainly was not reckoned originally one of the curule magistracies (Liv.
Mamercus was a very wealthy man, and his refusal of the aedileship was the cause of his defeat for the consulship.
He stood for the aedileshipwithout success (Cicero, Orat.
The honours of the duumvirate and the aedileship cost respectively L32 and L24.