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tioninthisrespect.46In186B.C.,onthestrengthofthedecisionof
theSenateandconsuls,aedilesinterferedwithreligiousissuesdur-
ingrepressionagainsttheconfessorsofBacchus.4,Teyalsocon-
trolledshops,taverns,thermae(baths)androadsjtheircoërcitio
wasconnectedwiththesetasks.4;
However,aedilesbelongedtothemagistraturesheldusu-
allybyyoungpeopleandjwhatismostimportantjthrougha
one-year-longtenure.Suchashortperiodcouldnotprovideac-
quiringthenecessaryexperience.Between366and188B.C.,theage
oftheaveragequaestorandaedilewasaround25.Tiswaschanged
byLexVilliaannalis,whichappointedtheorderofcursushonorum
andtheyoungestpossibleageforindividualfunctionsj25years
forquaestorsand36or37yearsforcuruleaedile.TusCaesar
heldtheofceoftheaedileinhisearlylife,whenhewasjust34
years-old.49Despitetheirbroadcompetences,aedileshadonlya
groupofviatoresandwritersattheirdisposaltosupporttheirop-
erations.50InthetimesoftheEmpire,theygraduallylosttheircom-
petencesinfavourofimperialofcials,includingespeciallythepre-
fectoftheCity.Teofceitselfmusthavebeenabolishedbythe
emperorSeverusAlexander,althoughthelastepigraphicmentions
referringtothemdatebacktothemid-thirdcentury.51
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(1995)482n.21;cf.Arangio-Ruiz&Pugliese-Cantarelli(1954)59-60;Lintott(1968)
99.
4,Liv.39.14.6-10.Sabbatucci(1954)319;Nippel(1988)34.
xiv4124.2).Hirschfeld(1913)578;Sabbatucci(1954)303;Impallomeni(1956);Kaser
(1963)183;Lintott(1968)99;Bauman(1974)246-7;Kunkel&Wittmann(1995)482-3;
Kuryłowicz(2000)440-1;Kamińska(2012).
49Develin(1979)58-80,88,97.
sen(1887-8)i559;Vigneaux(1896)306;Brancher(1909)55;Freis(1967)45;Ruciński
(2009)87-8.
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