Fasces
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title:
Fasces
text:
Fasces is a bound bundle of wooden rods, often but not always including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces is an Italian symbol that had its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a Roman king's power to punish his subjects, and later, a magistrate's power and jurisdiction. The axe has its own separate and older origin. Initially associated with the labrys, the double-bitted axe originally from Crete, is one of the oldest symbols of Gre
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Bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes with an axe
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
date created:
2002-02-16T02:58:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T02:48:17Z
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