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Lictor

Lictor: bodyguard in ancient Rome, whose task it was to protect magistrates. A Roman magistrate and two lictors carrying fasces The word…

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Marcellus (governor)

Marcellus: Roman governor of Judaea (36/37 CE).According to the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, the Roman governor of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, was in 36 or 37 CE dismissed by the governor of Syria, Lucius Vitellius, and replaced by one of his…

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Megabyzus (1)

Megabyzus (Old Persian Baghabuxša): Persian nobleman, one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius I the Great become king (September 522 BCE). …

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