1) Ancient Roman title 2) Officer in old Rome 3) Roman executing sentences
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ancient Roman magistrate's attendant
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• (n.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals.
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member of an ancient Roman class of magisterial attendants, probably Etruscan in origin and dating in Rome from the regal period. Lictors carried the ...
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In ancient Rome, an attendant of a magistrate. In processions the lictors carried the
fasces (symbolic bundles of rods) in front of the magistrates. Their town dress was the toga, but in triumphal...
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The lictor acted as an escort and bodyguard to protect elected government officials. The word lictor may be derived from the Latin verb ligare, which means to bind. This may refer to the fasces they carried, the symbol of governemnt introduced during the Etruscan monarchy, which were a set of rods that were bound in the form of a bundle around an a…...
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Lic'tor (lĭk'tŏr)
noun [ Latin ]
(Rom. Antiq.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish cri...
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A lictor was a Roman civil officer, who attended upon the consuls or other chief magistrates when they appeared in public. Lictors executed the orders of the magistrate, especially where force was required, cleared the way before him, and dispersed a crowd when it impeded public business. It was the duty of the
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