The corpus record — Latin

Aedituus

Aedituus · m

a keeper of a temple

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Where it lives

Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Noctes Atticae 7 · 0.63/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

aedĭtŭus — Lewis & Short

aedĭtŭus, i, m.aedes-tueor; quasi a tuendis aedibus appellatus, Gell. 12, 10,

I a keeper of a temple, a sacristan, i(erofu/lac (first used in polite language in the time of Varro for aeditumus; v. the word and the passage cited from Varr.).

I Lit., Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 48: aeditui custodesque mature sentiunt, etc., * Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44; Suet. Dom. 1 al. It belonged also to the office of the aeditui to conduct strangers through the temple, and point out its curiosities, hence Horace says: quales aedituos habeat virtus, what panegyrists, Ep. 2, 1, 230.—

II In gen., priests, ministers (eccl.): erunt in sanctuario meo aeditui, Vulg. Ezech. 44, 1; ib. Ose. 10, 5.

Where it came from

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