Editing Lictor (section)

{{Short description|Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates}}
[[File:37.03a roman lictor.png|thumb|200px|upright|Bronze statuette of a Roman lictor carrying a fasces, 20 BC to 20 AD]]

A '''lictor''' (possibly from [[Latin language|Latin]] ''ligare'', meaning 'to bind'{{sfn|Brennan|2023|p=13}}) was a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] civil servant who was an attendant and [[bodyguard]] to a [[Roman magistrate|magistrate]] who held ''[[imperium]]''. Roman records describe lictors as having existed since the [[Roman Kingdom]], and may have originated with the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]].{{sfn|Staveley|Lintott|2012}}