1851 print LICTORS, ANCIENT ROME (88)

Description: 1851 print LICTORS, ANCIENT ROME (88) Print from steel engraving titled ITALIE ANCIENNE (Empire Romain): Licteurs, published in a volume of L'Univers, Histoire et description de tous les peuples, Paris, approx. image size 14.5 x 7 cm, nice hand coloring. Click image or here to view larger version lictor plural Lictors, or Lictores, member of an ancient Roman class of magisterial attendants, probably Etruscan in origin and dating in Rome from the regal period. Lictors carried the fasces for their magistrate and were constantly in his attendance in public; they cleared his way in crowds, and summoned and punished offenders for him. They also served as their magistrate's house guard. Emperors originally had 12 lictors, but after Domitian (reigned AD 81–96) they had 24; dictators, 24; consuls, 12; praetors, 6; legates, 5; and priests, one. Lictors were mostly freedmen, exempt from military duties. They held annual, regularly renewed appointments at fixed salaries. The Comitia Curiata (a popular assembly) was summoned by the lictors until the late republic, when the Comitia met less frequently and the 30 divisions of the people, or curiae, delegated 30 lictors as their representatives. Please e-mail me if you have any questions. Buyer pays shipping at cost. I prefer payment by PayPal, but I'll also accept any other payment method and currency (except direct payment by credit card) that is convenient for buyer. I combine shipping of multiple items. IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SHIPPING: Price quoted with auction is for surface mail, which is the same regardless of destination. When auction ends I can give you option of airmail and insurance. If shipping address is within Europe I recommend surface mail, you don't gain much time with airmail, it is just more expensive.

Price: 18.9 USD

Location: Zagreb, Croatia

End Time: 2024-10-01T19:14:16.000Z

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