an œdile

aedīlis, is, m. (abl. aedili, Tac. A. 12, 64; Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 4; Dig. 18, 6, 13;

but aedile is more usual,

Charis. p. 96 P.; Varr. 1, 22; Cic. Sest. 44, 95; Liv. 3, 31; Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 158; Inscr. Orell. 3787, 8; cf. Schneid. Gr. II. p. 221; Koffm. s. v.) [aedes], an œdile, a magistrate in Rome who had the superintendence of public buildings and works, such as temples, theatres, baths, aqueducts, sewers, highways, etc.; also of private buildings, of markets, provisions, taverns, of weights and measures (to see that they were legal), of the expense of funerals, and other similar functions of police. The class. passages applying here are: Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 42; Varr. L. L. 5, § 81 Müll.; Cic. Leg. 3, 3; id. Verr. 2, 5, 14; id. Phil. 9, 7; Liv. 10, 23; Tac. A. 2, 85; Juv. 3, 162; 10, 101; Fest. s. h. v. p. 12; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 8, 3 and 6.—Further, the aediles, esp. the curule ædiles (two in number), were expected to exhibit public spectacles; and they often lavished the most exorbitant expenses upon them, in order to prepare their way toward higher offices, Cic. Off. 2, 16; Liv. 24, 33; 27, 6. They inspected the plays before exhibition in the theatres, and rewarded or punished the actors according to their deserts, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 148; id. Cist. ep. 3;

for this purpose they were required by oath to decide impartially,

Plaut. Am. prol. 72.—It was the special duty of the aediles plebeii (of whom also there were two) to preserve the decrees of the Senate and people in the temple of Ceres, and in a later age in the public treasury, Liv. 3, 55. The office of the aediles curules (so called from the sella curulis, the seat on which they sat for judgment (v. curulis), while the aediles plebeii sat only on benches, subsellia) was created A.U.C. 387, for the purpose of holding public exhibitions, Liv. 6, 42, first from the patricians, but as early as the following year from the plebeians also, Liv. 7, 1.—

Julius Cæsar created also the office of the two aediles Cereales, who had the superintendence of the public granaries and other provisions,

Suet. Caes. 41.—The free towns also had ædiles, who were often their only magistrates, Cic. Fam. 13, 11; Juv. 3, 179; 10, 102; Pers. 1, 130; v. further in Smith's Dict. Antiq. and Niebuhr's Rom. Hist. 1, 689 and 690.

uses the word once adject.: aediles ludi, œdilic sports, Poen. 5, 2, 52.

annālis, e, adj. [annus].

Continuing a year, annual:

tempus, cursus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 27, 1; so Dig. 14, 2, 1; 38, 17, 6.—

A.. Relating to the year or the age: Lex Villia Annalis, the law passed B. C. 180 by L. Villius, which determined the age necessary for election to an office of state (for the quæstorship, 31; for the office of ædile, 37; for the praetorship, 40;

and for the consulship, 43 years): legibus annalibus grandiorem aetatem ad consulatum constituebant,

Cic. Phil. 5, 17; cf.:

eo anno (573 A. U. C.) rogatio primum lata est ab L. Villio tribuno plebis, quot annos nati quemque magistratum peterent caperentque. Inde cognomen familiae inditum, ut annales appellarentur,

Liv. 40, 44; cf. also Cic. de Or. 2, 65.—

annālis, is (abl. reg. annali, Cic. Brut. 15, 58; Nep. Hann. 13, 1; but annalei, Varr. ap. Charis. 1, 17, p. 97:

annale,

Ascon. ad Cic. Pis. 22, 52; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 224), subst. m. (sc. liber), most freq. in plur.: an-nāles, ium (sc. libri), an historical work, in which the occurrences of the year are chronologically recorded, chronicles, annals (diff. from historia, a philosophical narration. following the internal relation of events, Ver. Fl. ap. Gell. 5, 18; cf. Cic. Or. 20).

Spec., from the most ancient per. down to the time of the Gracchi, when a literature had been formed, each pontifex maximus wrote down the occurrences of his year on tablets, which were hung up in his dwelling for the information of the public. Such tablets, accordingly, received the name of Annales Maximi (not to be confounded with the Libri Pontificales sive Pontificii, which contained instructions and liturgies for the holy rites). See the class. passages, Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 51; id. Rep. 1, 16; Fest. s. v. maximi, and cf. Creuz. ad Cic. N. D. 1, 30; id. Leg. 1, 2; Niebuhr, Rom. Hist. 1, 277 sq. From these sources the Rom. histt. drew, and hence called their works, in gen., Annales. The most renowned among the annalists of the ancient period are Q. Fabius Pictor, M. Porcius Cato, and L. Calpurnius Piso (cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 51); in the time of the emperors, Tacitus named one of his hist. works Annales, since in it the history of Rome, from the death of Aug. until the time of Nero, was given acc. to the annual succession of events; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 255 sq.; 301 sq.; 313 sq.; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 333, 1.—Annalis in sing., Cic. Att. 12, 23; id. Brut. 15; Nep. Hann. 13, 1; Plin. 7, 28, 29, § 101.—Adj., with liber, Ver. Fl. in the above-cited passage, and Quint. 6, 3, 68.—

In gen., records, archives, history:

carminibus antiquis, quod unum apud illos memoriae et annalium genus est,

Tac. G. 2:

annalibus traditum (est) coram rege,

Vulg. Esth. 2, 23:

annales priorum temporum,

ib. ib. 6, 1.—

annālia, ium, n., a festival observed at the beginning of the year, Inscr. Grut. 116, 2.

annālis, e, adj. [annus].

Continuing a year, annual:

tempus, cursus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 27, 1; so Dig. 14, 2, 1; 38, 17, 6.—

A.. Relating to the year or the age: Lex Villia Annalis, the law passed B. C. 180 by L. Villius, which determined the age necessary for election to an office of state (for the quæstorship, 31; for the office of ædile, 37; for the praetorship, 40;

and for the consulship, 43 years): legibus annalibus grandiorem aetatem ad consulatum constituebant,

Cic. Phil. 5, 17; cf.:

eo anno (573 A. U. C.) rogatio primum lata est ab L. Villio tribuno plebis, quot annos nati quemque magistratum peterent caperentque. Inde cognomen familiae inditum, ut annales appellarentur,

Liv. 40, 44; cf. also Cic. de Or. 2, 65.—

annālis, is (abl. reg. annali, Cic. Brut. 15, 58; Nep. Hann. 13, 1; but annalei, Varr. ap. Charis. 1, 17, p. 97:

annale,

Ascon. ad Cic. Pis. 22, 52; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 224), subst. m. (sc. liber), most freq. in plur.: an-nāles, ium (sc. libri), an historical work, in which the occurrences of the year are chronologically recorded, chronicles, annals (diff. from historia, a philosophical narration. following the internal relation of events, Ver. Fl. ap. Gell. 5, 18; cf. Cic. Or. 20).

Spec., from the most ancient per. down to the time of the Gracchi, when a literature had been formed, each pontifex maximus wrote down the occurrences of his year on tablets, which were hung up in his dwelling for the information of the public. Such tablets, accordingly, received the name of Annales Maximi (not to be confounded with the Libri Pontificales sive Pontificii, which contained instructions and liturgies for the holy rites). See the class. passages, Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 51; id. Rep. 1, 16; Fest. s. v. maximi, and cf. Creuz. ad Cic. N. D. 1, 30; id. Leg. 1, 2; Niebuhr, Rom. Hist. 1, 277 sq. From these sources the Rom. histt. drew, and hence called their works, in gen., Annales. The most renowned among the annalists of the ancient period are Q. Fabius Pictor, M. Porcius Cato, and L. Calpurnius Piso (cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 51); in the time of the emperors, Tacitus named one of his hist. works Annales, since in it the history of Rome, from the death of Aug. until the time of Nero, was given acc. to the annual succession of events; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 255 sq.; 301 sq.; 313 sq.; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 333, 1.—Annalis in sing., Cic. Att. 12, 23; id. Brut. 15; Nep. Hann. 13, 1; Plin. 7, 28, 29, § 101.—Adj., with liber, Ver. Fl. in the above-cited passage, and Quint. 6, 3, 68.—

In gen., records, archives, history:

carminibus antiquis, quod unum apud illos memoriae et annalium genus est,

Tac. G. 2:

annalibus traditum (est) coram rege,

Vulg. Esth. 2, 23:

annales priorum temporum,

ib. ib. 6, 1.—

annālia, ium, n., a festival observed at the beginning of the year, Inscr. Grut. 116, 2.

annālis, e, adj. [annus].

Continuing a year, annual:

tempus, cursus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 27, 1; so Dig. 14, 2, 1; 38, 17, 6.—

A.. Relating to the year or the age: Lex Villia Annalis, the law passed B. C. 180 by L. Villius, which determined the age necessary for election to an office of state (for the quæstorship, 31; for the office of ædile, 37; for the praetorship, 40;

and for the consulship, 43 years): legibus annalibus grandiorem aetatem ad consulatum constituebant,

Cic. Phil. 5, 17; cf.:

eo anno (573 A. U. C.) rogatio primum lata est ab L. Villio tribuno plebis, quot annos nati quemque magistratum peterent caperentque. Inde cognomen familiae inditum, ut annales appellarentur,

Liv. 40, 44; cf. also Cic. de Or. 2, 65.—

annālis, is (abl. reg. annali, Cic. Brut. 15, 58; Nep. Hann. 13, 1; but annalei, Varr. ap. Charis. 1, 17, p. 97:

annale,

Ascon. ad Cic. Pis. 22, 52; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 224), subst. m. (sc. liber), most freq. in plur.: an-nāles, ium (sc. libri), an historical work, in which the occurrences of the year are chronologically recorded, chronicles, annals (diff. from historia, a philosophical narration. following the internal relation of events, Ver. Fl. ap. Gell. 5, 18; cf. Cic. Or. 20).

Spec., from the most ancient per. down to the time of the Gracchi, when a literature had been formed, each pontifex maximus wrote down the occurrences of his year on tablets, which were hung up in his dwelling for the information of the public. Such tablets, accordingly, received the name of Annales Maximi (not to be confounded with the Libri Pontificales sive Pontificii, which contained instructions and liturgies for the holy rites). See the class. passages, Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 51; id. Rep. 1, 16; Fest. s. v. maximi, and cf. Creuz. ad Cic. N. D. 1, 30; id. Leg. 1, 2; Niebuhr, Rom. Hist. 1, 277 sq. From these sources the Rom. histt. drew, and hence called their works, in gen., Annales. The most renowned among the annalists of the ancient period are Q. Fabius Pictor, M. Porcius Cato, and L. Calpurnius Piso (cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 51); in the time of the emperors, Tacitus named one of his hist. works Annales, since in it the history of Rome, from the death of Aug. until the time of Nero, was given acc. to the annual succession of events; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 255 sq.; 301 sq.; 313 sq.; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 333, 1.—Annalis in sing., Cic. Att. 12, 23; id. Brut. 15; Nep. Hann. 13, 1; Plin. 7, 28, 29, § 101.—Adj., with liber, Ver. Fl. in the above-cited passage, and Quint. 6, 3, 68.—

In gen., records, archives, history:

carminibus antiquis, quod unum apud illos memoriae et annalium genus est,

Tac. G. 2:

annalibus traditum (est) coram rege,

Vulg. Esth. 2, 23:

annales priorum temporum,

ib. ib. 6, 1.—

annālia, ium, n., a festival observed at the beginning of the year, Inscr. Grut. 116, 2.

bĭbŭlus, a, um, adj. [1. bibo].

Lit., drinking readily, freely ( poet. or in postAug. prose):

bibulus Falerni,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 34:

potores,

id. ib. 1, 18, 91.—More freq.,

Transf., of inanim. things, that sucks in or absorbs moisture:

harena,

sand that imbibes, drinks up moisture, Lucr. 2, 376; Verg. G. 1, 114; Ov. M. 13, 901:

lapis,

a stone that absorbs moisture, Verg. G. 2, 348 (qui harenarius vocatur, Serv.); Col. 3, 15, 4:

litus,

Ov. H. 16 (17), 139:

favilla,

Verg. A. 6, 227:

radix,

Ov. M. 14, 632:

talaria,

moistened, id. ib. 4, 730:

medulla,

id. ib. 4, 744:

ollae bibulae aut male coctae,

Col. 12, 45, 3:

papyrus,

growing in moist places, Luc. 4, 136:

charta,

blotting-paper, Plin. Ep. 8, 15, 2; cf. Isid. Orig. 6, 10, 1:

taenia papyri,

Plin. 13, 12, 25, § 81:

nubes,

Ov. M. 14, 368 (cf. 1. bibo, B. 1.): lanae, absorbing or taking color, id. ib. 6, 9 (v. poto).—

Trop., of hearing (cf. 1. bibo, II.):

aures,

ready to hear, listening, Pers. 4, 50.

Bĭbŭlus, i, m., a proper name.

L. Publicius Bibulus, a military tribune in the time of the second Punic war, Liv. 22, 53, 2.—

M. (in Appian. Civ. 2, 8, Aeukios) Calpurnius Bibulus, a contemporary of Cœsar, consul with him A.U.C. 695, Suet. Caes. 19; 20; 49; cf. Cic. Vatin. 9, 21; id. Fam. 1, 9, 12; id. Att. 1, 17, 11; 2, 14, 1; 2, 19, 2; 6, 1, 13; 6, 8, 5.—

C. Bibulus, an œdile A.U.C. 775, Tac. A. 3, 52.

bĭbŭlus, a, um, adj. [1. bibo].

Lit., drinking readily, freely ( poet. or in postAug. prose):

bibulus Falerni,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 34:

potores,

id. ib. 1, 18, 91.—More freq.,

Transf., of inanim. things, that sucks in or absorbs moisture:

harena,

sand that imbibes, drinks up moisture, Lucr. 2, 376; Verg. G. 1, 114; Ov. M. 13, 901:

lapis,

a stone that absorbs moisture, Verg. G. 2, 348 (qui harenarius vocatur, Serv.); Col. 3, 15, 4:

litus,

Ov. H. 16 (17), 139:

favilla,

Verg. A. 6, 227:

radix,

Ov. M. 14, 632:

talaria,

moistened, id. ib. 4, 730:

medulla,

id. ib. 4, 744:

ollae bibulae aut male coctae,

Col. 12, 45, 3:

papyrus,

growing in moist places, Luc. 4, 136:

charta,

blotting-paper, Plin. Ep. 8, 15, 2; cf. Isid. Orig. 6, 10, 1:

taenia papyri,

Plin. 13, 12, 25, § 81:

nubes,

Ov. M. 14, 368 (cf. 1. bibo, B. 1.): lanae, absorbing or taking color, id. ib. 6, 9 (v. poto).—

Trop., of hearing (cf. 1. bibo, II.):

aures,

ready to hear, listening, Pers. 4, 50.

Bĭbŭlus, i, m., a proper name.

L. Publicius Bibulus, a military tribune in the time of the second Punic war, Liv. 22, 53, 2.—

M. (in Appian. Civ. 2, 8, Aeukios) Calpurnius Bibulus, a contemporary of Cœsar, consul with him A.U.C. 695, Suet. Caes. 19; 20; 49; cf. Cic. Vatin. 9, 21; id. Fam. 1, 9, 12; id. Att. 1, 17, 11; 2, 14, 1; 2, 19, 2; 6, 1, 13; 6, 8, 5.—

C. Bibulus, an œdile A.U.C. 775, Tac. A. 3, 52.

Caesōnĭus, a, name of a Roman gens. —So,

M. Caesonius, œdile with Cicero, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1; 1, 12, 11; id. Verr. 1, 10, 29. —

Caesonius Paetus, consul under Nero, Tac. A. 14, 29.—Hence, Caesōnĭānus, a, um, adj., Col. 1, 4, 1.—

Milonia Caesonia, mistress and afterwards wife of Caligula, Suet. Calig. 25; Juv. 6, 616.

Caesōnĭus, a, name of a Roman gens. —So,

M. Caesonius, œdile with Cicero, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1; 1, 12, 11; id. Verr. 1, 10, 29. —

Caesonius Paetus, consul under Nero, Tac. A. 14, 29.—Hence, Caesōnĭānus, a, um, adj., Col. 1, 4, 1.—

Milonia Caesonia, mistress and afterwards wife of Caligula, Suet. Calig. 25; Juv. 6, 616.

trĭgĕmĭnus (collat. form, mostly poet., tergĕmĭnus), a, um, adj. [tresgeminus], three born at a birth: fratres, three twin-brothers.

Lit., Liv. 1, 24, 1; cf.:

tergeminos nasci certum est Horatiorum Curiatiorumque exemplo,

Plin. 7, 3, 3, § 33:

trigeminorum matres,

Col. 3, 8, 1:

trigemini filii,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 123. — As subst.: trĭgĕmĭni, three brothers born at a birth, Liv. 1, 25, 1; Col. 2, 1, 3; 7, 6, 7; cf.:

trigemino partu,

id. 3, 10, 17:

Horatius trigemina spolia prae se gerens,

of the three twin-brothers, Liv. 1, 26, 2:

Trigemini,

the title of a comedy of Plautus, Gell. 7, 9, 7.—

Transf., in gen., threefold, triple, triform, = triplex (mostly poet.):

trigeminae victoriae triplicem triumphum egistis,

Liv. 6, 7, 4:

tripectora tergemini vis Geryonai,

Lucr. 5, 28; cf.

of the same and of Cerberus: tergeminumque virum tergeminumque canem,

Ov. Tr. 4, 7, 16;

and of Cerberus: cui tres sunt linguae tergeminumque caput,

Tib. 3, 4, 88:

canis,

Prop. 4 (5), 7, 52: tergemina Hecate (because she was also Luna and Diana; cf.

triceps and triformis),

Verg. A. 4, 511:

tergemina dextra,

i. e. of the three Graces, Stat. S. 3, 4, 83:

jus tergeminae prolis. i. e. trium liberorum,

id. ib. 4, 8, 21:

pomorum tergemina natura,

Plin. 15, 28, 34, § 114:

verba illa Ciceronis in Pisonem (cap. 1) trigemina: decepit, fefellit, induxit,

Gell. 13, 24, 22: certat tergeminis tollere honoribus, to the threefold honors, i. e. of the three highest magistracies, those of the curule ædile, the prætor, and the consul, Hor. C. 1, 1, 8:

at tibi tergeminum mugiet ille sophos,

thrice repeated, Mart. 3, 46, 8.—

Porta Trigemina, a gate, in the early times of Rome, at the foot of Mount Aventine, Liv. 4, 16, 2; 35, 10, 12; Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 22; Plin. 18, 3, 4, § 15; Front. Aquaed. 5 al.; cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 157 sq.

trĭgĕmĭnus (collat. form, mostly poet., tergĕmĭnus), a, um, adj. [tresgeminus], three born at a birth: fratres, three twin-brothers.

Lit., Liv. 1, 24, 1; cf.:

tergeminos nasci certum est Horatiorum Curiatiorumque exemplo,

Plin. 7, 3, 3, § 33:

trigeminorum matres,

Col. 3, 8, 1:

trigemini filii,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 123. — As subst.: trĭgĕmĭni, three brothers born at a birth, Liv. 1, 25, 1; Col. 2, 1, 3; 7, 6, 7; cf.:

trigemino partu,

id. 3, 10, 17:

Horatius trigemina spolia prae se gerens,

of the three twin-brothers, Liv. 1, 26, 2:

Trigemini,

the title of a comedy of Plautus, Gell. 7, 9, 7.—

Transf., in gen., threefold, triple, triform, = triplex (mostly poet.):

trigeminae victoriae triplicem triumphum egistis,

Liv. 6, 7, 4:

tripectora tergemini vis Geryonai,

Lucr. 5, 28; cf.

of the same and of Cerberus: tergeminumque virum tergeminumque canem,

Ov. Tr. 4, 7, 16;

and of Cerberus: cui tres sunt linguae tergeminumque caput,

Tib. 3, 4, 88:

canis,

Prop. 4 (5), 7, 52: tergemina Hecate (because she was also Luna and Diana; cf.

triceps and triformis),

Verg. A. 4, 511:

tergemina dextra,

i. e. of the three Graces, Stat. S. 3, 4, 83:

jus tergeminae prolis. i. e. trium liberorum,

id. ib. 4, 8, 21:

pomorum tergemina natura,

Plin. 15, 28, 34, § 114:

verba illa Ciceronis in Pisonem (cap. 1) trigemina: decepit, fefellit, induxit,

Gell. 13, 24, 22: certat tergeminis tollere honoribus, to the threefold honors, i. e. of the three highest magistracies, those of the curule ædile, the prætor, and the consul, Hor. C. 1, 1, 8:

at tibi tergeminum mugiet ille sophos,

thrice repeated, Mart. 3, 46, 8.—

Porta Trigemina, a gate, in the early times of Rome, at the foot of Mount Aventine, Liv. 4, 16, 2; 35, 10, 12; Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 22; Plin. 18, 3, 4, § 15; Front. Aquaed. 5 al.; cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 157 sq.

vectīgal, ālis ( gen. plur. vectigaliorum, Suet. Aug. 101; id. Calig. 16:

vectigalium,

id. Tib. 49), n. [vectus, from veho], a toll, tax, impost paid to the State (cf.: tributum, census, stipendium).

Lit.:

in vectigalibus non solum adventus mali, sed etiam metus ipse affert calamitatem... ita neque ex portu neque ex decumis neque ex scripturā vectigal conservari potest,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 15; C. Gracch. ap. Gell 11, 10, 3; Caes. B C 1, 35; id. B. G. 1, 18; 1, 36:

pensitare,

Cic. Imp Pomp. 6, 16:

imponere agro,

id. Agr. 2, 21, 55 sq.:

levare agrum vectigali,

id. Brut. 36, 136.—

Esp., an honorarium or contribution paid to a magistrate:

praetorium,

Cic. Att. 5, 21, 11: aedilicium, the contribution of a province to the games instituted by an œdile, id. Q. Fr, 1, 1, 9, § 26.—

Transf, of private affairs, revenue, rents, income, etc.:

vectigalia urbana rusticis (anteponantur),

Cic. Off. 2, 25, 88; cf.:

ex meo tenui vectigali,

id. Par. 6, 3, 49; Hor. C. 3, 16, 40; Col. praef. § 27; Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168; 26, 3, 8, § 15; Plin. Ep. 7, 18, 2 sq.—Prov.:

magnum vectigal est Parsimonia,

Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49.