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lictors

lictors is the plural of lictor.

Meaning of lictor

Noun

lictor (plural lictors)

  1. An officer in Ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
    • Hee brought-in likevvise the ancient cuſtome againe, that in vvhat moneth hee had not the Knitches of rods vvith Axes borne before him, a publique Officer called Accensvs ſhould huiſher him before, and the Serjeants or Lictours follovv after behinde.1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […]...

Questions about lictors

What is lictors the plural of?
Lictors is the plural of lictor.

Words near lictors in the dictionary

  1. licostinel
  2. lics
  3. lictor
  4. lictorial
  5. lictorian
  6. lictors
  7. lictour
  8. lictours
  9. licuado
  10. licuados
  11. licuala

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