Lictor
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A lictor 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 they may have ori
Bust of a 2nd-century lictor most likely wearing a paenula, a type of cloak
Gold coin from Dacia, minted by Coson, depicting a consul and two lictors
Head of Libertas on a denarius issued by Brutus, one of the assassins of Caesar, and on the reverse a consul flanked by two lictors
Pomerium
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The pomerium or pomoerium was a religious boundary around the city of Rome and cities controlled by Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within its pomerium; everything beyond it was simply territo
Lictor
…Magister equitum: 6 lictors Praetor: 6 lictors, 2 within the pomerium Curule aediles: 2 lictors…
Inscription marking the Claudian pomerium in Via del Pellegrino