fasces

/fas-eez/US // ˈfæs iz //UK // (ˈfæsiːz) //

军队,大军,军队的力量,军队的力量是有限的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a bundle of rods containing an ax with the blade projecting, borne before Roman magistrates as an emblem of official power.

Wilt thou see also the Tarquin kings, and the haughty soul of Brutus the Avenger, and the fasces regained?
The Roman consuls were accustomed to use a certain badge of authority called the fasces.
Those were the days when fasces were carried abroad in public ftes, as emblems of liberty,—fasces!
This morning he appointed me regent head of the house, and delivered me the fasces and curule chair.
The decemvir's lictor attacks Valerius and Horatius: the fasces are broken by the people.