Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Ediles

(2 syl.). Roman officers who had charge of the streets, bridges, aqueducts, temples, and city buildings generally. We call our surveyors city ediles sometimes. (Latin, ædes, a house.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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