I.a small bundle, packet (class.): “epistolarum,” Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 4; “so of packets of letters,” id. Att. 2, 13, 1; 5, 11, 7; 12, 53: “librorum,” Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 12: “fasciculum ad nares admovebis?” a bunch of flowers, nosegay, Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 43: “linum in fasciculos manuales colligatum siccatur in sole,” Plin. 19, 1, 3, § 16; Vulg. Matt. 13, 30.
fascĭcŭlus , i, m. dim. fascis,