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Later that same day, accompanied by twelve followers whom he called his lictors, and preceded by the silver eagle that had once belonged to Marius, he left the city and went to Arretium, where he formally proclaimed himself consul.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

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

Meanwhile, six men called lictors marched in front of the praetor.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Meanwhile, six men called lictors marched in front of the praetor.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Meanwhile, six men called lictors marched in front of the praetor.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Meanwhile, six men called lictors marched in front of the praetor.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

The fasces were cylindrical bundles of wooden rods, tied tightly together, from which an axe projected; they were borne by guards, called lictors, before praetors, consuls, proconsuls, dictators, and emperors.

languagehat.com: FAJITAS AND FALAFEL. 2004

In public each consul was attended by twelve servants, called lictors, each of whom bore an axe bound in a bundle of rods (_fasces_), the symbols of the authority of the consul to flog and to put to death.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

Whenever a consul appeared in public, he was preceded by two officers called lictors, each of whom carried the fasces as a symbol of the power which was vested in the distinguished personage who followed them.

History of Julius Caesar Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 1904

Acts 16: 35, 38 (R.V., "lictors"), officers who attended the magistrates and assisted them in the execution of justice.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897