To emphasize the superiority of this imperium over that of the consuls, the dictator might be preceded by twenty-four lictors, not by the usual twelve; and, at least in the earlier period of the office, these lictors bore the axes, the symbols of life and death, within the city walls. [Please select]
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Lictors interfered just in time. [Please select]
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The curule ædiles, the quæstors, and the tribunes of the people, not having the _imperium_, had no lictors. [Please select]
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These all conducted him to his house, the lictors, four and twenty in number, marching before him. [Please select]
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Neither will I call in the lictors of my colleague to put down them that raise a tumult. [Please select]
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Neither will I call in the lictors of my colleagues to put down them that raise a tumult. [Please select]
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[28] “The consuls, like the ancient kings, have twelve lictors carrying axes and twelve lictors carrying rods. [Please select]
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The power was collective: one alone carried the insignia of it, and walked preceded by the lictors. [Please select]
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Some litters were preceded by lictors bearing maces in bundles of rods; others by crowds of slaves. [Please select]
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The lictors and praetorians cleared the way, so there were no convenient halts that could enable him to slip unnoticed through the crowd. [Please select]
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Cato refused to obey; one of the tribune’s lictors dragged him from it; he slipped from him, and a moment after re-appeared on the rostra, trying to speak again. [Please select]
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