lic|tor

lic|tor
lic|tor «LIHK tuhr», noun.
one of the group of attendants on a public official in ancient Rome who punished offenders at the official's orders. The lictors carried the fasces.
[< Latin līctor, related to ligāre to bind (from the fasces he carried)]

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