Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lixae

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LIXAE. Camp followers; persons of free birth, who followed an army into the field with the object of supplying the soldiery with goods and provisions of various kinds, as a source of individual profit. Liv. xxxix. 1. Val. Max. ii. 7. 2.

2. By Apuleius (Met. i. p. 18.), servants or attendants upon a magistrate, such as the lictors.