What is "lictors"

Usage examples of "lictors".

Otherwise, thought Caesar, secretly grinning as his lictors cleared a path for him through the ibises, they are the biggest nuisances in all creation.

When the boat tied up and the lictors climbed out the citizens backed away a little, obviously taken aback at such calmness, such alien but impressive splendor.

Once his twenty-four lictors had lined up in a column of twelve pairs, Caesar made light work of getting out himself, then stood arranging the folds of his toga fussily.

Yet here definitely stood a Roman with twenty-four lictors, clad in a ludicrous purple-bordered white blanket, with some leaves on his head and a plain cylinder of ivory resting on his bare right forearm between his cupped hand and the crook of his elbow.

Caesar, beginning to walk behind his lictors again, which forced the captain to send a man running on ahead to guide the party.

Caesar and his lictors alone in the room, the captain hurried off, presumably to see who he could find to receive them.

I might have one of my lictors pluck a rod from his bundle and administer it.

Royal Enclosure, Caesar poked and pried everywhere during those two days, escorted only by his lictors, indifferent to danger.

Back to the audience chamber behind his lictors, to find the King seated not on the top throne but on the lower one.

Royal Enclosure, where Caesar stood barring its passage, clad in his purple-bordered toga, his oak-leaf crown upon his head, the rod of his imperium on his right forearm, and twelve lictors to either side of him.

Cato instructed his six lictors to remain in the vestibule, then marched onward into the depths of a house designed to envelop its denizens in a degree of luxury that he found nauseating.

When he entered behind his twenty-four lictors, his eyes searched in vain for Cicero, who was in Rome and had been notified that there was an urgent meeting of the Senate.

Special dancers and singers were to weave their way between the lictors, hymning Caesar Triumphator.

House was by no means full, but when Caesar entered behind his twenty-four lictors, he counted a comfortable quorum.

The fact that Caesar has no lictors is of immeasurable importance, but he is still surrounded by hundreds of clients whenever he goes about the city.