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Fasces  n. pl.  (Rom. Antiq.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.






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"Fasces" Quotes from Famous Books



... appeared in their aprons, carrying spades, rakes, and the other implements of their trade; the female supporting baskets on their heads filled with rich flowers, vegetables, and fruits. When in front of the bailiff, the young men formed a sort of fasces of their several implements, with a readiness that denoted much study while the girls arranged their baskets in a circle at its foot. Then, joining hands, the whole whirled around, filling the air with a ...
— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper

... were stored there. Not only was the Senate-house destroyed by the flames, but a temple also that was close to it. Milo's house was attacked, and was defended by arms. We are made to understand that all Rome was in a state of violence and anarchy. The Consuls' fasces had been put away in one of the temples—that of Venus Libitina: these the people seized and carried to the house of Pompey, declaring that he should be Dictator, and he alone Consul, mingling anarchy with a marvellous reverence for ...
— The Life of Cicero - Volume II. • Anthony Trollope

... with shameful stain, Hath marred its heavenly blue? The yoke, the fasces, and the chain, Say, are ...
— The Liberty Minstrel • George W. Clark



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