How to pronounce“aedile”in English
Instead theater was almost immediately professionalized.
A person known as an aedile or praetor would take charge of the festival and hire a dominus gregis to supply the play or plays.
The dominus gregis would buy a play, hire a mix of slave and free actors to act it and arrange masks and props and probably at least a couple of flutes.
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Definitions of “aedile”
An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water.
“Some of these encroachments may have received permission from the town council or the local aediles. A handful of painted notices found on the outside of the Amphitheatre suggest that it was the aediles who authorised the street vendors plying their trade underneath the monument’s arches, and assigned their pitches: ‘By permission of the aediles. Licensed to Caius Aninius Fortunatus’ etc., as the faint and fragmentary Latin seems to say.”