Note 918 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY
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The praetor had a right to six lictors (στρατηγὸς ἑξαπέλεκυς, App. Syr. 15; cf. Polyb. iii. 40) and appears with the full number in the province (Cic. in Verr. v. 54, 142 “sex lictores circumsistunt”); but, in the exercise of his jurisdiction within the city, he employed, or was allowed, only two (Censorinus de Die Nat. 24, 3; cf. Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 34, 93).