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2 LIG-, a lictor, official attendant upon a magistrate : se augustiorem lictoribus duodecim sumptis fecit, L.—Twenty-four lictors, with the fasces, walked in single file before a dictator, twelve before a consul, six before a praetor: consularis, H.; they scourged or beheaded condemned criminals, C., L.