Lictor

[70] _Proximus lictor_ is the one of the lictors who, when they precede the praetors or consuls, walks last, and is therefore nearest to his commander; and this lictor, according to Roman custom, had the highest rank among his fellow-lictors. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)

Carried by a man called a lictor, it indicated a magistrate’s degree of imperium q.v.—six for a praetor, twelve for a consul. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

In her groundbreaking new capacity Livia was permitted to call on the services of a lictor, an official usually assigned to act as a minder to magistrates when they were moving through the city. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

His avian profile bent first to the left and then to the right, and then he extended a long finger and beckoned to his chief lictor. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

But then at last we heard the front door open and slam shut, and the lictor came in with the senator, who looked around him suspiciously—first at Cicero, then at Atticus, Quintus, Terentia, and me, and then back at Cicero again. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

The lictor went off to make sure that the carnifex and his assistants would be standing by. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

“What shall we do with him?” called the proximate lictor. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

Cicero consulted the head of his official bodyguard, the proximate lictor, who told him that the best place—because the most easy to protect—would be the execution chamber beneath the Carcer, which was conveniently next door to the Temple of Concordia. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

For if through your carelessness or neglect the wolf carries off a sheep, doubtless you will not only lose the reward prepared for you by our Lord, but, after having first been tortured by the strokes of the lictor, you will also be savagely hurled into the abode of the damned. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sevarian makes it to Thrax and becomes the lictor, but after not too long a time there gives it up. ❋ John Loyd (2009)

One had to allocute to the confession when one was free of torture this was compromised by the knowledge that recanting would lead to being returned to the ministrations of the lictor. ❋ Steven Barnes (2007)

Just at that instant, however, a lictor knocked at the dining-room door, and a reveler, clad in white vestments, entered, followed by a large retinue. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Alarmed at this inquiry, I went down, when the questioner had gone, to find out what was the matter, and learned that the praetor's lictor, whose duty it was to see that the names of strangers were entered in his rolls, had seen two people come into the inn, whose names were not yet entered, and that was the reason he had made inquiry as to their names and means of support. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All the other priestly colleges attended, plus every lictor on duty in Rome, so it was a colorful spectacle of togas striped in red and purple, round capes and ivory apex helmets, pontifices and augurs with togas pulled up to veil their heads. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

But he certainly was shaken, and as soon as we were back on the Via Sacra, he drew me out of the keen hearing of the proximus lictor and said, This is a serious development, Tiro. ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

“I, lictor,” he concluded, “colliga manus — caput obnubito-infelici suspendite arbori.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Had Lord Lufton appeared as lictor and had Thompson carried the fasces, Miss Anne would have known more about it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

he is in [LG]([lictors Guild]) [that group] over there being scared is LG. ❋ Roman Words (2020)