38) Martial evokes the atmosphere: "Now the schoolboy puts away his walnuts and is ordered back by his bullying teacher, and the gambler, badly let down by the harmless-seeming dice-pot, is chucked out of the obscurity of the tavern, drunkenly begging the
aedile for a few more hours.
In his definition of fatherland, Voltaire complained that "he who bums with ambition to become
aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself.
After his return to Rome, he was elected quaestor (76) and
aedile (70).
This presumably means the traditional offices of quaestor,
aedile and duumvir (20), though we have no record of any individual holding these offices in Hispania after the third century.
The scholiast was certainly unaware of other intricacies of Roman society, including nomenclature; thus in the scholia to the didascalia of the Hecyra he confuses a curule
aedile named Sextus Iulius Caesar with the much more famous and distantly related dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar (born sixty-five years after the first performance of this play).
already served as a military tribune, a quaestor and an
aedile, before
Cicero wants to be
aedile and finally a consul but he must be elected to these posts, and he has no money of his own and few influential friends.
24) and Persius' officious
aedile who breaks substandard pints (1.
Each
aedile was to spend not less than 2,000 sesterces from his own money, to be supplemented by 1,000 sesterces of public money.
e, must have been
aedile, tribune, praetor, or consul(23) and that consular auctoritas would have been highly desirable, if not essential, for such a measure--to be all but irresistibly tempted to conclude that the injured party was indeed the consul Q.
One might argue that Favonius was
aedile in 53 and praetor in 51, and that the election he lost in 51 concerned a public priesthood.
Although Erastus the
aedile need not be the same as the Erastus mentioned in Romans, Clarke is probably right to stress the high status of the Pauline individual.
