Aedile
The aediles (Latin: aediles, singular aedilis, from aedes, dt Temple ) is a lower clad office of the official career ( cursus honorum ) of the Roman Republic antiquity. They were elected for one year. Have your name, the aediles from its original function as a temple guardian of Cerestempels (Latin Aedis Cereris ), which then was the State Archives, among others.
In the capital, Rome
Since 495/494 BC there were two plebeian aedile ( aediles plebei ), held the police violence in the city of Rome. This was probably a result of the stands fighting; the aedile were a kind of assistant for the People's Tribune and launched their authority from it. Perhaps they too were sacrosanct (Latin sacrosanctitas: about " sanctity ").
Since 367/366 BC curule aediles were buried them two sets ( aediles curules ), which were placed alternately from the patricians and the plebeians and were particularly responsible for the big games and led the supervision of the temple. The annual official start of the aedile coincided with the consuls and praetors of. The Aedile Like all Roman magistrates were elected for one year, but not in a meeting, but the plebeian aedile in Concilium plebis the curule in the comitia populi tributa. In addition, were considered for the office of the principles of all the Roman magistrates: Kontinuation ( direct repeat ), iteration and accumulation ( accumulation of offices ) were forbidden.
All four aediles basically had the oversight of public buildings, the thermal baths, the aqueducts, the roads, the traffic, the construction industry and the markets and exerted from the market jurisdiction, that is, they were in charge of prices, sizes and weights of goods sold in the marketplace. As part of this role, they created the legal institutions conversion ( actio redhibitoria ) and reduction ( actio quanti minoris ), which are therefore called " ädilizische remedies ". The tasks of the curule aedile was the purchase of grain and its sale in Rome or the distribution to needy persons; the plebeian aedile led the supervision of the plebeian temple. The orientation of gladiatorial games had to take over at their own expense, which required a large fortune, on the other hand also brought the necessary popularity to be chosen later in higher offices under official career the aediles. Little is known about the criminal and criminal violence of aedile, it can be assumed, however, that they had regulatory tasks as subordinate magistrates. The minimum age for applying for a Ädilamt was 37 years in the late Republic.
Under Gaius Julius Caesar, the number of aediles was increased to six, the two newly created offices, called aediles cereales, mainly were responsible with cheap or even free grain for the supply of the population. Ever since that time there was between the aediles no differences in status or rank anymore, they were a college in the service of the city.
The Ädilenamt also existed in the Roman Empire as part of the cursus honorum continued, but had no political significance.
In the colonies
After stadtrömischem pattern existed in the Roman colonies, two duoviri aediles. They were elected by the city council ( ordo decurionum ) from the free-born Roman citizens. Its powers are similar to those of urban Roman aediles.