Definition of "aediles" []

• Plural form of aedile. (noun)

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• "After his tribuneship, he was candidate for the office of chief aedile; there being two orders of them, one the curules, from the stool with crooked feet on which they sat when they performed their duty; the other and inferior, called aediles of the people."
• "“The aediles,” as the expression ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814."
• "The edicts of praetors, and in some cases of the aediles: such as are the chief justices in the courts of England."