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Definitions of fasces in various dictionaries:
noun - bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding
A bundle of rods bound together around an ax with the blade projecting, carried before ancient Roman magistrates as an emblem of authority.
noun - an ancient Roman symbol of power
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| Roman emblem signifying power |
| Roman symbol of power |
| Roman emblem of power adopted by Mussolini |
| Symbol of power |
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| Dec 25 2016 New York Times |
| Apr 14 2012 New York Times |
| Oct 28 2007 New York Times |
| May 24 2003 New York Times |
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| Mussolini's party name came from this bundle of rods bound to an ax, a symbol of ancient Rome |
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| A bundle of rods bound together around an ax with the blade projecting, carried before ancient Roman magistrates as an emblem of authority. |
| a bundle of rods with a projecting axe blade, carried by a lictor in ancient Rome as a symbol of a magistrate's power, and used as an emblem of authority in Fascist Italy. |
| bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power in modern Italy it is a symbol of Fascism |
| A bundle of rods with a projecting axe blade, carried by a lictor in ancient Rome as a symbol of a magistrate's power, and used as an emblem of authority in Fascist Italy. |
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| Fasces (English: , Latin: [fa.skes]; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning "bundle"; Italian: fascio littorio) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces had its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate's power and jurisdiction. The axe originally associated with the symbol, the Labrys (Greek: , lábrys) the double-bitted axe, originally from Crete, is one of the oldest symbols of Greek civilization. To the Romans, it was known as a bipennis. Commonly, the symbol was associated with female deities, from prehistoric through historic times.The image has survived in the modern world as a representation of magisterial or collective power, law and governance. The fasces frequently occurs as a charge in heraldry: it is present on the reverse of the U.S. Mercury dime coin and behind the podium in the United States House of Representatives; and it was the origin o |