And the lictors’ rods and axe will hew into the unwholesome jungle of bureaucracy grown up since young Italy in the making took over ready-made systems of government, administration, judiciary ...

Jacques-Louis David, The Lictors bringing to Brutus the bodies of his dead sons, 1789 Paris, Louvre. Musée du LouvreIn this new series, our writers introduce us to a favourite painting.

“The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons,” by Jacques Louis David, is on display in the Louvre in Paris. (Musée du Louvre, Paris/Wikimedia Commons) The U.S. Supreme Court decision ...

Lictors are a large Cthulu-esque creature from the Tyranid race. They are a highly evolved from of Tyranid Warriors, deriving some of their horrifying qualities from these warriors. They have many ...

The word fascist, perhaps one of the most abused forms of political abuse, should properly apply to those connected with the Italian party of that name, founded by Benito Mussolini and others in 1919.

Instead he imagined the moment when the lictors – the physical executioners and the bodyguards of the Republic – return the bodies to Brutus’s household for burial. At the left of the 14-square-metre ...