aediles's Usage Examples:

The gate on the north-east still exists, and bears the inscription of three aediles who erected the gate, the towers and the wall.

Its presidents were the magistrates of the people, usually the consuls and praetors, and, for purposes of jurisdiction, the curule aediles.

42), after the passing of the Licinian rogations, an extra day was added to the Roman games; the aediles refused to bear the additional expense, whereupon the patricians offered to undertake it, on condition that they were admitted to the aedileship.

She was worshipped almost exclusively by plebeians, and her temple near the Circus Maximus was under the care of the plebeian aediles, one of whose duties was the superintendence of the corn-market.

In 44 Caesar added two patrician aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the care of the corn-supply.

The policing of the city had formerly been one of the duties of the aediles, but was now transferred to the praefectus vigilum, appointed by the emperor from the equites.

Unlike the urban quaestor, the military quaestor possessed not a criminal but a civil jurisdiction corresponding to that of the aediles at Rome.

A decree of the senate ordered that his works should be confiscated and burned by the aediles.

AGORANOMI, magistrates in the republics of Greece, whose position and duties were in many respects similar to those of the aediles of Rome.

But although the curule aediles always ranked higher than the plebeian, their functions gradually approximated and became practically identical.

They were originally two in number, called " plebeian " aediles.

Its utterances (plebiscite) had the full force of law; it elected the tribunes of the plebs and the plebeian aediles, and it pronounced judgment on the penalties which they proposed.