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  • Lictors served as attendants to all Romes high-ranking officials.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Lictors served as attendants to all Romes high-ranking officials.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Lictors served as attendants to all Romes high-ranking officials.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Lictors served as attendants to all Romes high-ranking officials.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • And in order to frighten the people and the Senate, in place of the twelve Lictors, they created one hundred and twenty.

    Discourses 2003

  • Lictors so as not to exceed the number that ministered to the

    Discourses 2003

  • These Ten conducted themselves civilly, not having more than ten Lictors who walked before the one who had been placed in charge over them.

    Discourses 2003

  • The occasion had been the adoption of a patrician by a plebeian, this complicated affair needing a sanction from the College of Pontifices as well as the Lictors of the Thirty Curiae; young Ahenobarbus alleged that Scaurus had not attended to the requirements properly.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • Lictors rushed to cordon off the area, the crowd was pushed elsewhere, and Spurius and Aulus Albinus stood looking down at a dead man and ruined plans.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • Lictors represented the thirty divisions of Rome called curiae.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

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