fasces
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fascis, fascis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
- Geography:
- Italy/Rome
bundles of rods (w/ax) (pl.); (carried by lictors before high Roman magistrate);; bundle (esp. sticks/books sg.); faggot; packet, parcel; burden, load;; power/office of magistrate; bundle (esp. sticks/books); faggot; burden/load;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...saeui sceleris sua signa secutam. 10sed fremitu uolgi fasces et iura querentisinferri Romana suis discordia sensitpectora et ancipites..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...nunc sum tibi gloria maior,a me quod fasces et quod pia turba senatustantaque discessit regum manus. incipe..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...luce cruentaeffectum, ut Latios non horreat India fasces,nec uetitos errare Dahas in moenia ducatSarmaticumque premat succinctus consul..." - M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quis castra uocet tot strictas iure securis,tot fasces? docuit populos uenerabilis ordonon Magni partes sed Magnum..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tectus amictu omnis honos, nullos comitata est purpura fasces. tum questus tenuere suos magnusque per omnis 20errauit sine..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...coactaeet cum consulibus turbantes iura tribuni;hinc rapti fasces pretio sectorque fauorisipse sui populus letalisque ambitus urbiannua uenali..." - A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...oppido foederatorum, ab eo, qui beneficio populi Romani fasces ac secures haberet, deligatus in foro virgis caederetur? Quid..." - T
Epidicus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Quidnam? TH. Scies: lictores duo, duo ulmei fasces virgarum. EP. Vae tibi. sed quid ais? TH. Quid rogas..."