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en-wikipedia-org-8267		Lictor - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1658	366	57	A lictor (possibly from Latin: ligare, "to bind") was a Roman civil servant who was an attendant and bodyguard to a magistrate who held imperium. Lictors are documented since the Roman Kingdom, and may have originated with the Etruscans.[1] Originally, lictors were chosen from the plebs, but through most of Roman history, they seemed to have been freedmen. Centurions from the legions were also automatically eligible to become lictors on retirement from the army.[3] They were, however, definitely Roman citizens, since they wore togas inside Rome. Lictors were exempted from military service, received a fixed salary (of 600 sesterces, in the beginning of the Empire), and were organized in a corporation. The lictor's main task was to attend as bodyguards to magistrates who held imperium. Quaestor: 0 lictors in the city of Rome, but quaestors were permitted to have fasces in the provinces.[4] Lictor curiatus[edit]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8267.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8267.txt