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fascis
fascis
Latin
Noun
fascis m (genitive fascis); third declension
- A fagot, fascine; bundle, packet, package, parcel.
- A burden, load.
- (chiefly in the plural) A bundle carried by lictors before the highest magistrates, consisting of rods and an axe, with which criminals were scourged and beheaded.
- A high office, like the consulship.
Inflection
Third declension i-stem.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fascis | fascēs |
| genitive | fascis | fascium |
| dative | fascī | fascibus |
| accusative | fascem | fascēs |
| ablative | fasce | fascibus |
| vocative | fascis | fascēs |
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References
- fascis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fascis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fascis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to walk before with the fasces; to lower the fasces: fasces praeferre, summittere
- to walk before with the fasces; to lower the fasces: fasces praeferre, summittere