Aedility
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Aedility is a noun meaning (historical, Ancient Rome) The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.
Meaning
(historical, Ancient Rome) The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.
Example Sentences
To commemorate his aedility Agrippa added public games lasting for 59 days as well as free admission to 170 public baths.
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.
Word Forms
- aedilities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include decurion, alytarch, censor, verbenarius, fetial, fetialis.
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