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 Übersetzung für 'lictors' von Englisch nach Deutsch
NOUN   lictor | lictors
hist.
lictors
Liktoren {pl}
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Übersetzung für 'lictors' von Englisch nach Deutsch

lictors
Liktoren {pl}hist.
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • After the founding of the empire, while this assembly continued to consist of thirty lictors, it only retained the power to witness wills and to ratify adoptions.
  • He forwarded a suggestion that Pompey, accompanied only by two lictors accompany Ptolemy back to Alexandria for Ptolemy to create a reconciliation with the citizens of Egypt.
  • The first two foreground figures are lictors, carrying fasces (bundles of rods symbolizing Roman authority).
  • Occasionally the officers of the "vicomagistri" would feature in certain celebrations (primarily the "Compitalia") in which they were accompanied by two lictors.
  • any such magistrate was also escorted by "lictors" bearing the "fasces" (traditional symbols of "imperium" and authority), when outside the "pomerium", axes being added to the "fasces" to indicate an imperial magistrate's power to inflict capital punishment outside Rome (the axes being removed within the "pomerium").

  • Each consul was accompanied in every public appearance by twelve lictors, who displayed the magnificence of the office and served as his bodyguards.
  • All the ten men had twelve lictors and their fasces had axes (even though the carrying of weapons within the city walls was forbidden).
  • Guards, ruffians and lictors also appear in the play.
  • Each senatorial prefect was assigned two lictors and other staff, but the later imperially-appointed prefects had no lictors.
  • The lictors were dispatched to carry out the punishment.

  • "Decani" also apparently served as s at gates, and in the 6th century, John Lydus equates them with the ancient lictors.
  • Lictors were associated with Comitia Curiata and, probably, one was originally selected from each curia, since there were originally 30 curiae and 30 lictors (24 for the two consuls and six for the sole praetor).
  • On the lower level there is a frieze representing Philopappos as a consul, riding on a chariot and led by lictors.
  • This is an ancient Imperial Roman symbol of power carried by lictors in front of magistrates; a bundle of sticks featuring an axe, indicating the power over life and death.
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