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English
Noun
ædile (plural ædiles)
- Archaic form of aedile.
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French
Noun
ædile m (plural ædiles)
- Obsolete form of édile.
1642, Plutarch, translated by Charles de L'Écluse and Jacques Amyot, Les Vies des Hommes Illvstres Grec et Romains, page 614:Il mourut ieune eſtant Ædile de Rome, & ayant eſpouſé Iulia fille d’Auguſte, auec laquelle il ne veſcut pas longuement: mais pour honorer ſa memoire, Octauia ſa mere dedia la librairie, & Auguſte Cæſar le threatre , qui ſont encore appellez iuſqu’auiourd’hui le Theatre & la Librairie de Marcellus.- He died young being Aedile of Rome, and having married Julia daughter of Augustus, with whom he did not live long: but to honour her memory, Octavia her mother dedicated a library and Augustus Caesar a theater, which are still called up to today the Theater and the Library of Marcellus.
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