aedility

See also: ædility

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Etymology

From Latin aedilis (“commissioner or magistrate”)

Noun

aedility (plural aedilities)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.
    • 1604, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts:
      Their trunke or hand is most easie to be cut off; for so it happened in the aedility or temple office of Claudius, Antonius and Posthumus being consuls...
    • 2013, Jacob Isager, “Book 36: Marble art and architecture”, in Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art:
      To commemorate his aedility Agrippa added public games lasting for 59 days as well as free admission to 170 public baths.

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