And peace was broken no more in the Jew's house but by the firm tramp of lictors and soldiers who kept watch over it, under arms.
The lictors battered at the door and as no one opened it, they forced it with the help of the soldiers in order to set a guard in the beleaguered house, and protect it against the raging mob.
See that the lictors wait, and guard the entrance-- Take care that none intrude.
Both classes were to employ as many lictors as were usual in the capital.
Beside this action with reference to the finances he established a board of three ex-prætors to collect debts owing the government, granting them lictors and the usual force of assistants.
At the bidding of the Roman proconsul the eminent Carnutic knight Acco was beheaded by Roman lictors (701) and the rule of the -fasces- was thus formally inaugurated.
The lictors would find it difficult to apprehend a shade and the girl has suffered the worst punishment of all.
One of the prefect's lictors brought this letter, which, if my wishes be granted, brings nothing that is unwelcome.
Antinous turned pale and the praetor went on: "When you wanted to rescue the fair Selene from the lictors your swift invention threw her into the sea!
In the place of the gay little gate-house stood a large tent of gorgeous purple stuff, in which the Emperor's body-guard was quartered, and opposite to it another was pitched for lictors and messengers.
Here lictors kept back the sight-seeking crowd, officers were lounging against the pillars, and the Roman guard were just assembling with a clatter of arms, to the sound of a trumpet within the door, to await their dismissal.
The wretch came up to seize her, and thelictors kept the people from him.
What name do they deserve then, who not only fail in the duty of defending their subjects, but send out their lictors and bloody executioners to oppress them, neither will suffer them to defend themselves!
After these came lictors bearing the fasces on their shoulders; then a splendid chariot drawn by white horses, and driven by a curled and scented charioteer.
He loyally recognises the claims of that toga edged with purple, and of those lictors walking in front with the symbolic bundles of rods containing the symbolic axe.
In the court he sat upon a platform in his official chair and with his lictors in attendance.
On his arrival, he assumed all the insignia of a supreme magistrate being preceded by lictors carrying the axes and fasces.
Cinna told his lictors to seize this second mutineer, and in the tumult that arose Cinna was slain.
Cinna went to harangue them, and one of his lictors in clearing a way struck a soldier.
In this way Cicero was sadly hampered by his lictors when, on his landing at Brundisium, he found that Italy was already preparing for her great civil war.
A public officer, called Accensus, preceded the other consul, and the lictors followed.
He also revived an old custom, that an officer [45] should precede him, and his lictorsfollow him, on the alternate months when the fasces were not carried before him.
Footnote 45: Within the city, the lictors walked before only one of the consuls, and that commonly for a month alternately.
To Duilia's vast delight Domitian did not forget his obligation to her, but paid frequent visits to her house, and it was a matter of pride to her to have his attendant lictors standing outside her door, as in former days.
As she was on her way, Domitian came by with his lictors and other attendants.
Behind them poured a glittering retinue of lictors and soldiers, officers of the guard, and officials of the city and chamberlains.
Without were many lictors lining the way, filling the court.
I responded that I was looking for a retired and solitary retreat, especially because I still had my lictors in attendance.
And how can I go nearer to Rome, as you advise, without the lictors given me by the people?
Mingling with these were the angry outcries of those whom the lictors or guardians of the peace had laid hands on, or their indignant companions; and the thunder outside rolled a solemn accompaniment to the mutinous tumult within.
The lictors were landed first to seek carts in the village.
Doane dismissed the lictors with a Mexican dollar each and unwrapped the larger object, which the servant had placed with great care on his berth.
It must have been strange to the courtier that his master did not send his lictors to carry the offending bishop to a dungeon, and give all his court favor to the heretics, like the last empress who had reigned at Milan.
Footnote 28: Lictors were attendants granted to Roman magistrates as a mark of official dignity.
The loss amounted to little over forty killed, and five lictors and eighteen horsemen taken.
The lictors at once went and reported to the king that there was a marvellous occurrence in the naraka, and wished him to go and see it; but the king said, "I formerly made such an agreement that now I dare not go to the place.
Immediately after, the lictors seized him, and threw him into a caldron of boiling water.
When the lictors of the naraka saw him, they were about to subject him to their tortures; but he, frightened, begged them to allow him a moment in which to eat his mid-day meal.
When those around had raised up Tarquin in a dying state, the lictors seized the shepherds, who were endeavouring to escape.
Wherefore call together all the lictors of your colleagues also; order the rods and axes to be got ready: the betrothed wife of Icilius shall not pass the night outside her father's house.
At first half, and finally all, of the consular lictors carried only the fasces.
The consuls advanced to take their seats, and the lictors were despatched to inflict punishment.
Accompanied by this numerous attendance, the lictors going before him, he was conducted to his residence.
Ten governed; one only was attended by the lictors and with the insignia of authority: their power was limited to the space of five days, and conferred upon all in rotation, and the interval between the government of a king lasted a year.
Are you not ashamed that an almost greater number of your lictors is to be seen in the forum than of the other citizens?
As the day wore on, trade became more brisk and the work of the lictors more arduous, for the crowd was dense and the bargain-hunters eager to push to the front.
The lictors now had at times to use their flails against the crowd.
Before the praefect's lictors could intervene the crowd had pushed forward; the men rushed and surrounded the impious creature who had dared to raise her voice against one of the divinities of Rome: Augusta the goddess.
The praefect had at last with the vigorous help of his lictors managed to push his way through the crowd.
Then in a sudden her mood seemed to change, her serenity returned, and when the praefect interposed she put out a restraining hand, warning the lictorsnot to approach.
How she contrived momentarily to free herself from the angry crowd of lictors and of slaves it were impossible to say; perhaps at this moment something in Menecreta's wild ravings had awed their spirit and paralysed their hands.
Her lictors chased the importunate crowd away, making room for the masters of Rome who desired speech with their mistress.
And it was characteristic of him that this time he did not interfere with his lictors when they handled the woman with their accustomed roughness.
As if moved by clockwork one of the lictors approached the girl and removed the unbecoming hat from her head, releasing a living stream of gold which, as it rippled over the girl's shoulders, roused a quick cry of admiration in the crowd.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lictors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
