Lictors and soldiers in the retinue of the Roman Emperor Titus, characters in Jean Racine's tragedy Berenice, 1670. Lictor in laurel wreath, white tunic and shoes holding a fasces. Soldier in helmet, armoured cuirass with spear, and aquilifer eagle-bearer in lionskin with aquila. Lecteurs et Soldats pour la suite de Titus. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving by Pierre-Michel Alix after an illustration by Philippe Chéry from Jean-Charles Le Vacher de Charnois’s Recherches sur les Costumes et sur les Theatres de Toutes les Nations, M. Drouhin, Paris, 1790.

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