Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates
Bronze statuette of a Roman lictor carrying a fasces, 20 BC to 20 AD
A lictor (possibly from Latin ligare, meaning 'to bind') was a Roman civil servant who was an attendant and bodyguard to a magistrate who held imperium. Roman records describe lictors as having existed since the Roman Kingdom, and may have originated with the Etruscans.[1]
A lictor (possibly from Latin ligare, meaning 'to bind') was a Roman civil servant who was an attendant and bodyguard to a magistrate who held imperium...
Peribolaster lictor is a species of echinoderm that is endemic to New Zealand and was first described by Barry Fell in 1958. The holotype specimen is held...
Ethiopian Lictor Youth (Italian: Gioventù Etiopica del Littorio, abbreviated G.E.L.) was a fascist youth organization in Ethiopia. Founded in 1936, GEL...
Arab Lictor Youth (Arabic: شباب الليتوريو العرب Shabāb Al-Līttūriw Al-ʿArab, Italian: Gioventù Araba del Littorio, abbreviated G.A.L.) was a fascist youth...
The Sword of the Lictor is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe. First released in 1982, it is the third volume in the four-volume series...
The Muslim Association of the Lictor (Italian: Associazione Musulmana del Littorio, AML) was created in January 1939 as the Muslim branch of the National...
Albanian Lictor Youth (Albanian: Djelmnia e Liktorit Shqiptar, Italian: Gioventù del Littorio Albanese, abbreviated G.L.A.) was a youth organization which...
known as imperium. They were carried in a procession with a magistrate by lictors, who carried the fasces and at times used the birch rods as punishment...
Ectaga lictor is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Guatemala. The wingspan is about 18 mm. The...
The lesser kiskadee (Philohydor lictor) is a species of passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is the only species in the genus Philohydor. It is...
The Gabardini Lictor was a light aircraft developed in Italy in the mid-1930s. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed, tailwheel undercarriage...
Periaptodes lictor is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1866. It is known from Indonesia...
Plateros lictor is a species of net-winged beetle in the family Lycidae. It is found in North America. "Plateros lictor Species Information". BugGuide...
Chionodes lictor is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[failed verification] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, Oregon...
Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri Lictor Magister militum Imperator Princeps senatus Pontifex maximus Augustus Caesar...
however, was minimal: his official attendants (apparitores), including lictors, heralds, messengers, scribes, and bodyguards; legates, both civil and...
current Constitution of France does not specify a national emblem. The lictor's fasces is very often used to represent the French Republic, although today...
Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri Lictor Magister militum Imperator Princeps senatus Pontifex maximus Augustus Caesar...
The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (French: Les licteurs rapportent à Brutus les corps de ses fils) is a work in oils by the French artist...
Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri Lictor Magister militum Imperator Princeps senatus Pontifex maximus Augustus Caesar...
ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic magistrate carried by his lictors. The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single...
of the Torturer 1981 The Claw of the Conciliator 1982 The Sword of the Lictor 1983 The Citadel of the Autarch 1987 The Urth of the New Sun In a 1998 poll...
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