lictor

A lictor had to be a strongly built man, capable of physical work.

They murdered a Roman lictor in the course of his duty!

His chief lictor approached and bent down to Caesar's chair.

So I changed places with my tallest lictor and got in through the shops next door.

The only tangible evidence of imperium was the lictor.

Go, lictor, attach him to the stake and scourge him!

He is a lictor, a special attendant.

In the Empire, women of the royal family were usually followed by two of this kind of lictor.

Such guard duty was about the least desirable task a lictor could be given by the head man of his group of ten.

I've sent for the head lictor because I think our bull will be bluffed tomorrow by a fence he could easily walk through.

The scroll was handed to Sulla's chief lictor.

"I tell you, Father, it is the new lictor of Thrax.

"Lictor, I command you to quell the riot!"

Each lictor held a fasces, a bundle of rods that contained an axe.

Centurions from the legions were also automatically eligible to become a lictor on retirement from the army.

Cinna turned to his own chief lictor.

See also lictor.

Drusilla muses on the life of happiness before her, when Arnalta arrives with a lictor.

Go, lictor, transfix him on a barren tree!'

"As for you lot," Caesar said affably to his chief lictor and his secretary, "you're permanent fixtures.

A startled lictor opened one to stick his head around it; Pompey's client yanked the door wide, then strode into the chamber.

A Vestal Virgin was accorded a lictor when her presence was required at a public ceremony.

The two Caesars had the cant down pat-'Go, lictor, tie his hands!

Specifications (Lictor 130)

Quaestors were entitled to one fasces and one lictor.