executioner Copy link Outline 1. carnĭfex, ĭcis, m. (of slaves or foreigners2. vindex rei capitalis • executioner: 1. carnĭfex, ĭcis, m. (of slaves or foreigners: see Smith's Dict. Ant. s. v.): Pl.: Cic. (who uses the term by way of reproach, of a lictor, Verr. 5, 45, 118). 2. vindex rei capitalis: Sall. Cat. 55 (where the ref. is to the triumviri capitales). (N.B. In early times the punishment of death was inflicted by the lictors; Liv. 2, 5: "missi lictores ad sumendum supplicium." Exactor supplicii is a judge who exacts the penalty: Liv. l. c.) Phr.: to die by the hands of the e., poenas morte dare, ultimum supplicium subire (v. punishment); if by beheading, securi feriri: v. to behead, hang, etc.
EXECUTIONER Copy link • EXECUTIONERHangman, etc., carnifex: exactor supplicii. ☞ exsecutor in Cod. Just., 8, 17, 17. To be an executioner, carnificinam facere (comedy): to seize upon the office of executioner, munus carnificis occupare: to die by the hands of the executioner, securi or securi illa funesta percuti (if the axe was used). Executor, Vid.