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Sergeants
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Acts 16:35 , properly Roman lictors, public servants who bore a bundle of rods, sometimes with an axe in the center, before the magistrates of cities and colonies as insignia of their office, and who executed the sentences which their masters pronounced.
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Sergeants'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/s/sergeants.html. 1859.