When they had excited each other by these discourses, a lictor was despatched by the consuls to Volero Publilius, a man belonging to the commons, because he stated, that having been a centurion he ought not to be made a common soldier.
The decemvir's lictor attacks Valerius and Horatius: the fasces are broken by the people.
When he stood mute, and a number of men stood round him in a ring, to prevent his being seized, the consuls sent a lictor to him.
The more vehemently he cried out, the more violently did the lictor tear off his clothes and strip him.
The lictor had approached him, and was fixing the rope.
Taurus Antinor sternly to the lictor who already had the flail raised for the second time.
He only ordered his lictor to use the flail when necessary, when the bundle of human goods was so huddled up that it ceased to look attractive, and likely purchasers seemed to fall away.
Now and then at a word from a likely purchaser he would with a sign order a lictor to pick out one of his wares, to drag him forward out of a compact group and set him up on the catasta.
We disturbed him in the midst of curling his hair; only one side was done when the lictor called him away, and I will wager my own head that he will have the other side frizzled before he comes back.
While he called out and the lictor hurried forward into the interior of the palace, Pontius went towards the gate-keeper's lodge, and having made his way in a stooping attitude through the damp clothes, there he stood still.
Titianus and the architect descended from the chariot, the former desired a lictor to call the steward of the palace, and then he and his companion inspected first the door which led into it.
The lictor wanted to take him up, but nothing is to be done with them by violence.
Mannaeus heard the command, and, seeing a lictor step forward armed with a hatchet, he feared that the man intended to behead Iaokanann.
He stayed the hand of the lictor after the first blow, and then slipped between the heavy lid and the pavement a kind of hook.
The decemvir's lictor attacked Valerius and Horatius: the fasces were broken by the people.
When he stood without saying a word, and a number of men stood round him in a ring, to prevent violence being offered, the consuls sent a lictor to seize him, but he was thrust back by the people.
When they had excited one another by these words, a lictor was despatched by the consuls to Volero Publilius, a man belonging to the commons, because he declared that, having been a centurion, he ought not to be made a common soldier.
The lictor had approached him, and was commencing to fix the rope round his neck.
Meanwhile to thee, chieflictor We give in charge the pot.
They have haled him from the Court-house, And have locked him up below; And the lictor guards the pewter, With its head of froth like snow.
It rests not on the wand[1497] which the foolish Lictor brandishes.
The lictor had no right to divulge his errand when he first met the cloth merchant, or to remove the latter's name from the top to the bottom of the list.
Suddenly the lictor himself appeared, and cried out, "Do you wish to ruin me?
Nor did he omit his usual custom of taking his station in the centre of the apartment, a lictorstanding by him, while he took leave of each of the party by name.
A lictor always preceded their chariots, which were drawn by white horses; every man, whatever his rank might be, made way for them; even the consuls stopped and lowered their fasces reverently before them.
A lictor preceded the chariot, which was followed by a number of female attendants, likewise dressed in white.
Let the lictor be the dispenser of your clemency, not his own; and let the fasces and axes which they carry before you constitute ensigns rather of rank than of power.
Lucullus type; yet he was always advocating the lictor and the commentariensis in the instance of the Christian.
This figure is the poet's lictor, who follows his master, instead of preceding him as the Roman lictor did.
It rises to real passion only where the poet's invisible companion, the lictor with the terrible axe, breaks up the skeletons of the Three Kings in the Cathedral of Cologne, "the miserable skeletons of superstition.
And when the lictor would have laid hands on these two the multitude brake his rods to pieces.
The lictor cried, "Sentence has been given," and bade Icilius give place.
Sallust, using Roman phraseology, says that he had been "proxumus lictor Jugurthae" (l c.
Such a lictor would stand nearest the magistrate, receive his immediate orders and be, therefore, presumably a more trusted and intimate servant.
In a short time the Lictor of the Pulaski "den" reported that travel along the road on which he had his post had almost entirely stopped.
When a meeting was held, one Lictor was stationed near the house, the other fifty yards from it on the road leading into town.
Having received the assurance that they desired to become Ku Klux, the Lictor blew the signal for his companion to come and take charge of the novices.
In ancient Rome, a lictor dark An axe before the consul bore; Thou hast a lictor too, but mark!
Having thrown the lictor on the ground, where the unhappy functionary took his own measure, instead of carrying out those of his superiors, Volero threw himself on the public, upon whom he made a very strong impression.
Illustration: A Lictor is sent to arrest Publilius Volero.
That from the indignation which arose, they were ordered to be removed from the senate-house, and a lictor despatched to conduct them out of the city and command them to lodge that day without the Roman frontier.
When it was announced that they had arrived at Rome, a lictor was despatched to meet Carthalo, to tell him, in the words of the dictator, to depart from the Roman territories before night.
From ocean to ocean there is not a tribe which will not be at the throat of its neighbour when the last Roman Lictor has turned his back.
She was made priestess of the deified Augustus; but Tiberius declared that public honors should be adjudged to women with extreme moderation, and he refused to allow a lictor to be appointed for her service.
