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Lictors served as attendants to all Romes high-ranking officials.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Lictors served as attendants to all Romes high-ranking officials.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Lictors served as attendants to all Romes high-ranking officials.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Lictors served as attendants to all Romes high-ranking officials.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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And in order to frighten the people and the Senate, in place of the twelve Lictors, they created one hundred and twenty.
Discourses 2003
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Lictors so as not to exceed the number that ministered to the
Discourses 2003
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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
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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
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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
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Lictors represented the thirty divisions of Rome called curiae.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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