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Lictor
Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A lictor (possibly from Latin ligare, meaning 'to bind') was a Roman civil servant who was an attendant and bodyguard to a magistrate who held imperium. Roman records describe lictors as having existed since the Roman Kingdom, and may have originated with the Etruscans.[1]
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