fascis is, m
FASC-,
a bundle, fagot, fascine, packet, parcel
: sarmentorum, L.: comites in fasce libelli, Iu.—
A burden, load
: Romanus Iniusto sub fasce, i. e.
soldiers' baggage
, V.: (apes) animam sub fasce
dedēre, V.—Plur,
a bundle of rods with an axe, carried before the highest magistrates, as an
emblem of authority
: imperi populi
R. fasces: anteibant lictores cum fascibus bini: fasces praetoribus
praeferuntur: tum demissi populo fasces,
lowered before the people
: fasces versi (at a consul's funeral),
Ta.: Marius cum fascibus laureatis.
—Fig.: cum tibi aetas nostra fascis summitteret,
yield precedence.—High office, supreme power
: fascibus conreptis, i. e.
usurping the government
, S.: Illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum
Flexit, V.: si Detulerit fascīs
indigno, i. e.
the consulship
, H.: fasces meruit,
the throne
, Iu.
