ædile
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See also: aedile
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ædile (plural ædiles)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]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[1], 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.
Further reading
[edit]- “ædile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.