Aedility

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings. Ancient-Rome, historical

    "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..."

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"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..."

Etymology

From Latin aedilis (“commissioner or magistrate”).

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