Definition of "lictors" []

• Plural form of lictor. (noun)

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• "Later that same day, accompanied by twelve followers whom he called his lictors, and preceded by the silver eagle that had once belonged to Marius, he left the city and went to Arretium, where he formally proclaimed himself consul."
• "The Latins formerly used ligare in the same sense as now alligare, to bind, whence the name lictors, for these officers, and bacula, or staves, for their rods, because staves were then used."
• "Meanwhile, six men called lictors marched in front of the praetor."