I.a sutler: “non lixa sequebatur,” Liv. 39, 1: “lixae modo sine insignibus, sine lictoribus, profectum,” id. 21, 63: “lixarum in modum negotiari,” id. 5, 8: “lixae ac negotiatores,” Tac. A. 2, 62.—
II. Transf.
A. In plur.: lixae , camp-followers, consisting of sutlers, cooks, servants, etc.: “lixas e castris submovit,” Val. Max. 2, 7, 2: “lixae permixti cum militibus,” Sall. J. 44: “ne lixae exercitum sequerentur,” id. ib. 45: “agmini totidem lixas habenti quot milites,” Quint. 8, 6, 42; Justin. 38, 10, 2.—
B. An attendant on a magistrate, App. M. 1, p. 113, 22.
