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thumb|200px|upright|Bronze statuette of a Roman lictor carrying a fasces, 20 BC to 20 AD
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 they may have originated with the Etruscans.
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