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Fasces  n. pl.  (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.






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"Fasces" Quotes from Famous Books



... the triumph gone; Goblets of tin mixed up with Yorick's bones, Bags made of togas—barrows formed of thrones, Whereon the majesty of Denmark sat; Fie! Juliet's petticoats in Wolsey's hat! Swords hacked at Bosworth, fasces, guns and spears Rusted with blood ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various

... never slack'd his pace, Till Death o'ertook him in the noble race, And placed him in a sphere of fame so high, That other patriots fill'd a lower sky. Even those ungrateful lands that seal'd his doom Recall'd the hanish'd man to rescue Rome. Torquains nigh, a sterner spectre stood, His fasces all besmear'd with filial blood: He childless to the shades resolved to go, Rather than Rome a moment should forego That dreadful discipline, whose rigid lore Had spread their triumphs round from shore to shore. Then ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

... gall." He will indeed be "a warm baby" if elevated to that inconsiderable office and permitted to monkey with the scepter while the governor is doing the elegant elsewhere. Texas may certainly consider herself fortunate if he does not pawn the fasces of power and blow in the proceeds of the erstwhile John Bell's variety joint. Should he do so, he will probably be permitted to "take off his things." The Post "ad." is worse than that of holy John Wanamaker, ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... strown with broken minds, and incense rise amid abject aspirations. Gods will be found unfit for their places; and it is not impossible that, in the ruin imminent from our contentions for power, and in the necessary extinction both of ancient families and of generous sentiments, our consular fasces may become the water-sprinklers of some upstart priesthood, and that my son may apply for lustration to the son of my groom. The interest of such men requires that the spirit of arms and of arts be extinguished. They will predicate peace, that ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor

... causas, I Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subiecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari! || Fortunatus et ille, deos qui novit agrestes, II Panaque, Silvanumque senem, Nymphasque sorores! || 5 Illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum III Flexit et infidos agitans discordia fratres, Aut coniurato descendens Dacus ab Histro, Non res Romanae, perituraque regna; || neque ille IV Aut doluit miserans inopem aut invidit ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce



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