Editing Aedile (section)

==Election to the office==
Plebeian aediles and Curule aediles were elected by the [[Tribal Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ancient Rome - Roman Senate, Republic, and Law of Twelve Tables {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Rome/The-Senate |access-date=2023-06-27 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |quote=The tribal assembly (comitia tributa) was a nonmilitary civilian assembly. It accordingly met within the city inside the pomerium and elected magistrates who did not exercise imperium (plebeian tribunes, plebeian aediles, and quaestors).}}</ref> Since the plebeian aediles were elected by the plebeians rather than by all of the people of Rome (plebeians as well as [[Patrician (ancient Rome)|patricians]]), they were not technically [[Roman magistrate|magistrates]]. Before the passage of the ''[[Lex Villia Annalis]]'', individuals could run for the aedileship by the time they turned twenty-seven. After the passage of this law in 180 BC, a higher age was set, probably thirty-six.<ref>Livy, XL.44</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Evans |first1=Richard J. |last2=Kleijwegt |first2=Marc |date=1992 |title=Did the Romans like Young Men? A Study of the Lex Villia Annalis: Causes and Effects |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20188706 |journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |volume=92 |page=182 |jstor=20188706 |issn=0084-5388}}</ref> By the 1st century BC, aediles were elected in July, and took office on the first day in January.