n.执束杆侍从执政官惩罚人的官吏

A Vestal Virgin was accorded a lictor when her presence was required at a public ceremony. 刀斧手也具有合法的与刑事的责任：他们能够听从他们主人的命令，逮捕罗马公民，然后处罚他们。

The lictor's main task was to attend as bodyguards to magistrates who held imperium. 刀斧手的主要派定工作，是去作为握有统治大权之长官的护卫：执政官(十二位刀斧手)，副执政(六位刀斧手，两位在罗马之内)，独裁官(在苏拉之前为十二位，后增加至二十四位)， 以及有资格座椅的市政官(两位刀斧手)；

He did not allow her the lictor to which she was entitled nor an altar to celebrate her adoption. 提比略取消了利维娅被授予的享有扈从跟随的荣耀以及举行收养仪式祭坛。

Lictors were organized in an ordered line before him, with the primus lictor (the principal lictor) right on his front, waiting for orders. 他们跟随著长官，不论他走到那里，包括中枢区，他的房屋，神殿与浴室。