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1 sella
sella ae, f [SED-], a seat, settle, chair, stool: in sellā sedere: altā deducere sellā, Iu.: sellae atque operis locus, work-stool: sella tibi erit in ludo, etc., teacher's chair: clausa, sedan-chair, Iu.: sellā qui primā sedens, on the front seat (of a wagon), Ph.— A magistrate's seat, official chair (that of the higher magistrates was called sella curulis): sedebat in rostris in sellā aureā: hoc de sellā dixit: consules positis sellis dilectum habebant, L.: parentes honestos Fascibus et sellis, H.* * *seat, chair -
2 sella
sella (ancient collat. form sedda, acc. to Scaur. p. 2252 P.), ae, f. dim. [for sedla; root sed-;.sedes], a seat, settle, chair, stool (syn.:II.sedile, scamnum): viden' ut expalluit! datin' isti sellam, ubi assidat cito,
Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 32; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 28; id. Poen. 1, 2, 56:scabilla, sellas, solia,
Cato, R. R. 10, 4; 157, 11:in sellā sedere,
Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104 (corresp. to sedes):fracta est patris sella,
Petr. 136:altā deducere sellā,
Juv. 3, 136 al. —Esp.A.Of a mechanic's work-stool:B.ipsum sellae atque operis et quaestus cottidiani locum,
Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 17:in foro sellam ponere,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56.—Of a teacher's chair, Cic. Fam. 9, 18 fin. —C.Of a portable chair or sedan (different from the lectica, a litter made like a bed):D.aut sellā, aut lecticā transire,
Suet. Claud. 25; so (opp. lectica) Dig. 32, 1, 49; Mart. 10, 10, 7; 11, 98, 12;simply sella,
Suet. Aug. 53; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15; Juv. 1, 124 al.;called also sella gestatoria,
Suet. Ner. 26; id. Vit. 16; Vulg. 2 Macc. 3, 27; cf.:gestamen sellae,
Tac. A. 14, 4; 15, 57.—Of a seat in a coach or wagon, Phaedr. 3, 6, 5.—E.Of a close-stool, Scrib. Comp. 193; 227;F.also called sella familiarica,
Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 4. —Of a saddle, Cod. Th. 8, 5, 47; Cod. Just. 12, 51, 12; Veg. 6, 6, 2; Vulg. Esth. 6, 8.—G.Esp., a magistrate's seat or chair (very freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 85; id. Div. 1, 52, 119; id. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 119; 2, 1, 47, § 124; 2, 2, 38, § 94; Caes. B. C. 3, 20; Liv. 3, 11; 6, 15; Hor. S. 1, 6, 97 et saep.; also called sella curulis; v. curulis.—Prov.: duabus sellis sedere, to sit on two stools, i. e. to keep in with both parties, Laber. ap. Sen. Contr. 3, 18 fin.; id. ap. Macr. S. 2, 3. -
3 aedilis
aedīlis, is, m. (abl. aedili, Tac. A. 12, 64; Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 4; Dig. 18, 6, 13;► Plaut.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.
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