office
Lictor
lictor
also: lictores, lictors
An attendant who walked before a Roman magistrate bearing the fasces, symbol of his authority; the number of lictors marked the rank of the office.
Reading notes
- Panegyric to Trajan §23 your own lictors
Lictors, the attendants who preceded a magistrate bearing the fasces; that Trajan's walked silent and unmenacing is part of Pliny's picture of his civility.