Lictors

Lictors: Lictors were ancient Roman attendants for important civil or religious officials. The word shares its etymology with ligament and ligature and the Latin word to bind.

Scarborough seemed to have his own backers in every city, self-appointed lictors who pushed their way through crowd and yelled insults at their opposite number, those who thought Scarborough was an agitator seeking to stir up racial trouble.