After the Ædiles had purchased the Eunuch of Menander, {the Play} which we are about to perform, he managed to get an opportunity of viewing it.
The city stands; the Prætors give the law, the Ædiles keep up the games, good men look to their principal and their interest.
Aint so partick'ler about the shirts as present can be washed, but be sure to go to 7 diles sign of Black boy and git the pigtail as I haint had a cud to chor since thursday.
At the Sacred Mount the Plebeians also obtained the privilege of having two Ædiles of their order appointed.
After the Macedonian and Syrian wars, the Curule Ædiles often incurred a prodigious expense, with the view of pleasing the people, and securing their votes in future elections.
Publilian Law was carried, by which the election of the Tribunes and Plebeian Ædiles was transferred from the Comitia of the Centuries to those of the Tribes.
To the two Plebeian Ædiles two Curule Ædiles were added in B.
At first confined to funerals, they were afterward exhibited by the Ædiles at the public games, with the view of pleasing the people.
The four Ædiles in common had the charge of the public buildings,[40] the care of the cleansing and draining of the city, and the superintendence of the police.
Footnote: The duties of the ædiles were various, and at first they were simple assistants of the tribunes.
The two leaders of the commons, Caius Licinius and Lucius Albinius, were elected the first Tribunes of the People, as the new officers were called, with two Ædiles to aid them.
An examination of the question whether the ædiles or censors had the inspection of the streets may be found in Ducker’s notes on Liv.
Its ædiles are terribly wanting in a sense of what is due to public health and enjoyment.
The town itself would be pleasant enough if its ædiles were more alive to the importance of sanitation.
There are some who state that the ædiles discharged that office by order of the tribunes.
Nor did the threats fall ineffectual: no elections were held, except those of ædiles and plebeian tribunes.
It was also regulated by the same consuls, that decrees of the senate should be deposited with the ædiles of the commons in the temple of Ceres; which before that used to be suppressed and altered at the pleasure of the consuls.
The going around[111] and attending to these was assigned to the ædiles of the people; on them devolved the chief administration of affairs and the majesty of the consular authority.
To the curule ædiles he entrusted the extinguishment of conflagrations, for which purpose he granted them six hundred slave assistants.
Of the ædiles one voluntarily resigned his office by reason of poverty.
For the time being he issued an edict to the ædiles to see to it that no building took fire and, if aught of the kind did happen, to extinguish the blaze.
In this same year one of the inferior ædiles died and Gaius Calpurnius succeeded him, in spite of having served previously as one of the patrician ædiles.
Those that he found in the city he had burned by the ædiles and those outside by the officials who might be in charge, and he visited punishment upon some of the composers.
Now this was done, like everything else, in pursuance of a decree: privately the ædiles had a horse-race and slaughter of wild beasts on the birthday of Augustus.
The Plebeian Ædiles were originally two in number.
The Curule Ædiles only had the superintendence of some of the greater festivals, on which occasions they went to great expense to gratify the people and buy popularity as a means of further promotion.
The functions of the Plebeian Ædiles seem to have been performed by all the Ædiles indifferently after B.
It happened that at the election of ædiles some men came to blows and no small number were killed near Pompeius, and as his garments were drenched with blood, he changed them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
