lictor
| In ancient Rome, an attendant of a magistrate. In processions the lictors carried the fasces (symbolic bundles of rods) in front of the magistrates. Their town dress was the toga, but in triumphal processions they wore red cloaks, and at funerals black cloaks. |
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