lictor

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When they had excited each other by these discourses, a lictor was despatched by the consuls to Volero Publilius, a man belonging to the commons, because he stated, that having been a centurion he ought not to be made a common soldier.

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  1. noun A Roman functionary who carried fasces when attending a magistrate in public appearances.

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  • The man at least bore the outward signs of a lictor, but, according to Cicero, was in the pay of Verres as his pimp. —  Life of Cicero
  • Seeing a dreadnought squash a ripper swarm, or a lictor alpha yank a powerless assault marine with its lethal flesh hooks, is enjoyably violent and makes battles fun to watch. —  GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
  • Go, lictor, bind his hands." —  Stories From Livy
  • Go, lictor, bind his hands, though but yesterday they won so great a dominion for the people of Rome. —  Stories From Livy
  • Go, lictor, bind him to the stake All that were present in the assembly stood stricken with terror at so cruel a command, and stood silent, but rather from fear than from obedience, each seeming to see the axe made ready against himself. —  Stories From Livy
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  1. From Middle English littoures, lictors, from Latin lictōrēs, pl. of lictor; see leig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, an attendant on the Roman magistrates, perhaps literally ‘binder,’ from ligare (√ lig), bind (with reference to the fasces or ‘bound’ rods which they bore, or to binding culprits); otherwise from licere, summon.
 

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