Aediles (Nova Roma)

Welcome to All Citizens of Nova Roma from the Aediles

Welcome to the portal page for all Aedile activities in Nova Roma. Here you can find information about the Ludi of this year, as well as Conventus Information, current and future Public Works Projects and more. Join one of our racing factios and gladiatorial schools today, and compete in our annual Ludi. We also have an international humanities competition for those who are more culturally-inclined. Learn more about aediles...

Current Aediles in Nova Roma

Aediles are magistrates charged with maintaining public services, protecting the public safety and overseeing marketplaces. Their most visible function, however, is in the staging of public games (ludi).

There are in total four aediles, two "curule aediles" and two "plebeian aediles" in Nova Roma. They are elected each year and serve one year terms. All candidates must be assidui and additionally only plebeians may run for plebeian aedile.

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• Curule Aediles of year 2762
• Plebeian Aediles of year 2762

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The domain of authority of the aediles includes:

All aediles:

• Ludi : organizing and watching upon our virtual or real games
• Other festivals
• Other events
• Public religious events : maintaining the order
• Real public facilities properties of the State : maintenance.

Curule Aediles:

• Equites: maintenance of the ordo equester list and regulation of the trade inside Nova Roma
• Macellum: our marketplace, which includes every venue where our Equites are engaged in commerce within Nova Roma property.
• Aedilician Fund: a fund for financing Nova Roma specific projects, specially Magna Mater Project.

Aedilician archives

• Aedilitas curulis archives
• Aedilitas Plebis archives

Ludi for the Current Year 2762

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Organized by Curule Aediles:

• Ludi Megalenses
• Ludi Romani

Organized by Plebeian Aediles:

• Ludi Ceriales
• Ludi Plebeii

(days to be precised by the aediles)

Racing Factions, Gladiatorial Schools and Ludi Championship Pages

Racing Factiones:

• Factio Albata - The Whites
• Factio Praesina - The Greens
• Factio Russata- The Reds
• Factio Veneta - The Blues

Gladiatorial Schools:

• Ludus Albatus - The Whites
• Ludus Praesinus - The Greens
• Ludus Russatus- The Reds
• Ludus Venetus - The Blues

Championship Pages:

• Circenses Championship
• Gladiatorial Championship
• Cultural Championship

Aediles in Roma Antiqua

The name "aedile" is said to come from their having the care of the temple (aedes) of Ceres. The first aediles, created in 494 BC, were plebeian ones. They were the assistants of the tribunes in such matters as the tribunes entrusted to them, including the hearing of causes of smaller importance.

The aediles curules, who were also two in number, were originally chosen only from the patricians, afterwards alternately from the patricians and the plebs, and at last indifferently from both (Liv. 7,1). The office of aediles curules was instituted B.C. 365, and, according to Livy on the occasion of the plebeian aediles refusing to consent to celebrate the ludi maximi for the space of four days instead of three; upon which a senatus consultum was passed, by which two aediles1' were to be chosen from the patricians. From this time four aediles, two plebeii and two curules, were annually elected (Liv. 6,42).

They had the general superintendence of buildings, both sacred and private: under this power they provided for the support and repair of temples, curiae etc, and took care that private buildings which were in a ruinous state were repaired by the owners, or pulled down. The superintendence over the supply and distribution of water at Rome was, at an early period, a matter of public administration: this was the duty of the censores; but when there were no censores, it was within the province of the aediles. The care of each particular source or supply was farmed to undertakers, and all that they did was subject to the approbation of the censors or the aediles (De Aquaeduct. Rom. lib. ii).

The care of the streets and pavements, with the cleansing and draining of the city, belonged to the aediles, and the care of the cloacae. They had the office of distributing corn among the plebs. The aediles had to see that the public lands were not improperly used, and that the pasture-grounds of the state were not trespassed on; and they had power to punish by fine any unlawful act in this respect. The fines were employed in paving roads, and in other public purposes.

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Selected links

• Aediles in Roma Antiqua
• Roman games
• Roman chariot racing
• Gladiatorial games
• Animals in arena
• Roman ball games
• Roman board games

Past Aediles in Nova Roma

• Curule Aediles of year 2761
• Plebeian Aediles of year 2761
• Curule Aediles of year 2760
• Plebeian Aediles of year 2760
• Curule Aediles of year 2759
• Plebeian Aediles of year 2759

Previous Year 2761 Ludi

Organized by Curule Aediles:

• Curule Information Page: 10th Anniversary Special Games
• Ludi Lupercales: February 15th - 17th ***Special Games***
• Ludi Conditorium: February 27th - March 5th ***Special Games***
• Ludi Megalenses: April 4th - 10th
• Ludi Matutini: June 9th - 11th ***Special Games***
• Ludi Herculanenses: August 1st and 3rd - 5th ***Special Games***
• Ludi Romani: September 9th - 17th
• Ludi Octobris: October 14th - 15th and 17th - 19th ***Special Games***
• Ludi Ianuales: December 15th - 19th ***Special Games***

Organized by Plebeian Aediles:

• Ludi Ceriales: April 21st - 27th
• Ludi Plebeii 4th - 17th November