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fasces (făs`ēz) [Lat.,=bundles], ancient Roman symbol of the regal and later the magisterial authority. The fasces were cylindrical bundles of wooden rods, tied tightly together, from which an axe projected; they were borne by guards, called lictors, before praetors, consuls, proconsuls, dictators, and emperors. The fasces, which symbolize unity as well as power, have often been used as emblems, e.g., on the arms of the French republic and on American coins. Italian Fascism derived its name and its emblem from the fasces. fasces rods bundled about ax; emblem of magistrates, Fascists. [Rom. Hist.: Hall, 119; Ital. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 399]
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Let us be our brothers' keeper and a bundle of sticks that cannot be broken. Makes you want to leave a bundle of sticks on the filmmakers' doorsteps. Students were asked to bring in a bundle of sticks that fit snugly into the crook of their arm, tied with string, and labeled with their name. |
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