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The Latins formerly used ligare in the same sense as now alligare, to bind, whence the name lictors, for these officers, and bacula, or staves, for their rods, because staves were then used.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The Latins used formerly to call to bind _ligare_, and now call it _alligare_; wherefore the staff-bearers are called _lictors_, and their staves are called _bacula_, [A] from the rods which they then carried.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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