LICTORS, in Roman antiquity, twelve officers or sergeants, appointed by Romulus the founder of Rome, to attend him whenever he should appear in public; each of them bearing a battle-axe stuck in a bundle of rods, which was then the usual symbol of sovereignty in the petty states of Hetruria. It was also a part of their office to be the public executioners in beheading, scourging, &c.
LIDD, a town of Kent in England, seated in Runney-marsh, and is one of the Cinque-ports. On the east side of it is a heap of stones, which they pretend was the tomb of Crispin and Crispianus.
LIDKOPING a town of West Gothland in Sweden, seated on the lake Wenar, in E. Long. 13. 40. N. Lat. 58. 25.