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Webster 1913 Edition
Fasces
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Fas′ces
,Noun.
pl.
[L., of
, pl.
fascis
bundle; cf. fascia
a band, and Gr. φάκελοσ
a bundle.](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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fasces
FAS'CES
,Noun.
plu.
In Roman antiquity, an ax tied with a bundle of rods, and borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.