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What is an aedileship?

What is an aedileship? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) The office of an aedile.
  2. (historical) The period or duration of this office.
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Mamercus was a very wealthy man, and his refusal of the aedileship was the cause of his defeat for the consulship.
Promotion to the aedileship was automatic for patricians, but Vespasian wasn't a patrician.
Also in 366 BC, the praetorship and curule aedileship were created.
This brought him into conflict with the aristocratic party, who prevented him from obtaining the aedileship.
Plancius, accused of organizing clubs to secure by bribery his election to the aedileship.
Other magistracies, the aedileship and the tribunate of the plebs, might be held between quaestorship and praetorship, but were not obligatory.

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