{The serjeants} (	ous rhabdouchous). Fasces-bearers,
regular Greek word (
habdos, ech(935c)) for Latin _lictores_ though
Cicero says that they should carry _baculi_, not _fasces_. Was
this message because of the earthquake, the influence of Lydia,
or a belated sense of justice on the part of the magistrates
(praetors)? Perhaps a bit of all three may be true. The Codex
Bezae expressly says that the magistrates "assembled together in
the market place and recollecting the earthquake that had
happened they were afraid."