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What is an aedile?

What is an aedile? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Ancient Rome) An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water.
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He spent enormous amounts of money buying influence, including giving public games as aedile that eclipsed anything that had gone before.
The tribunes proposed to the commons, and the commons ordered that this should be as if the aedile himself had sworn.
Once again, elections were held for aedile, praetor, quaestor and the other traditional offices of the Republic.
He had previously made himself very popular as aedile, and was unanimously elected to the command.
Little is known about him except that he was curule aedile c.67, praetor c.64, and later a pro praetor.
The widow Fulvia and the spouse of the aedile were engaged in high and grave discussion.

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