In those days the lictors kept watch at a cottage door, the fasces were hung upon a gateway of wood; consuls helped to gather in the harvest, and for long years the fields were ploughed by husbandmen who wore the consular robe.
May the sire’s example be followed by the son[183] and handed on to a grandson, nor these first fasces ever lack succession.
Page 5 counted by thefasces (for each has held them), the same recurring honours crown them, and a like destiny awaits their children in unbroken succession.
Were the fascesreft from Tarquin to be given to Eutropius?
He has given us a harbour to which the exiled majesty of Latium and the disgraced fasces might retire; he has given us annals wherein, abandoning the East, an age polluted with servile stains might find a refuge.
Once more the year opens under royal auspices and enjoys in fuller pride its famous prince; not brooking to linger around private thresholds the returning fasces rejoice in Caesar’s consulship.
Let the consular fasces of Romulus open a third year, and for the third time let the warlike procession accompany thy curule litter.
Overcome with emotion, the old man totters forward with outstretched hands to embrace his daughter, who springs to meet him; but the stern lictors interpose the fasces and deny them this sad comfort.
As they drew near, Coriolanus, though resolved to remain obdurate, showed himself not lacking in filial respect; he advanced to meet them, ordering the fasces to be lowered in the presence of his mother.
It was one born from a slave[497] that won the robe and diadem and fasces of Quirinus, that last of good kings!
Tarquinius Priscus introduced the axe andfasces with the other regalia.
When, not content even with having them for tribunes, you, a Roman army, conferred the fasces of your general upon men who never had a slave under their command?
That the magistrates of the Roman people had not then so many fasces as Hannibal could have carried before him, having taken them from generals whom he had slain.
The magistrates were obliged to salute them as they passed, and the fasces of the consul were lowered to do them reverence.
But only one of them at a time had a right to this power; and, in token thereof, his colleague's fasces had no axes in them.
He had sovereign power (Imperium) both in the city and out of the city, and the fasces were always carried before him with the axes in them, as they had been before the king.
Thou wast also a soldier with those subject to thee, and Rome rejoicing, was preparing for thee the fasces of the city.
A lictor always preceded their chariots, which were drawn by white horses; every man, whatever his rank might be, made way for them; even the consuls stopped and lowered their fasces reverently before them.
At the end they touched glasses together at a central point, which created a very singular kind of clash, and, at the same time, the arms underneath formed a sort of fasces of sleeves and cuffs.
Those were the days when fasces were carried abroad in public fetes, as emblems of liberty,--fasces!
Nero; and the fasces were stamped upon the coins of the republic, surmounted by a cap of liberty!
The old man turned and pointed haughtily to the shield carved above the marble chimneypiece, the fasces of blue and silver, the golden chief.
The number of fasces and lictors varied with the dignity of the magistrate.
Each administered the government day by day in succession, and the fasces were carried only before the one who presided for the day.
Thereupon Valerius not only pulled down the house, but, calling an assembly of the people, he ordered the lictors to lower the fasces before them, as an acknowledgment that their power was superior to his.
Wilt thou see also the Tarquin kings, and the haughty soul of Brutus the Avenger, and the fasces regained?
Mago immediately sent his corpse to Hannibal, ordering it to be placed, with the fasces which were taken at the same time, before the tribunal of the general.
The fasces of the lictors displayed the broad heads of the axes glittering above the rods, which bound them—the axes, never borne in time of peace, or within the city walls, save upon strange emergency.
The space officer behind the desk wore the three wide stripes of the commander's rank, topped by the fasces that symbolized the law.
The fasceswrought in gold above the stripes glittered in the light.
Those fasces were your ancient nobility, whom he has decimated.
You will have an absolute sceptre; but he has scattered the fasces which indicated it.
The British Amphitrite, smooth and clear, In richer azure never did appear; Proud her returning prince to entertain With the submitted fasces of the main.
The initiative taken by Caesar from the commencement of his consulship, in questioning the senators on the projects of laws, is an evidence that he had the fasces before Bibulus.
A pretty residence for an Emperor," sighed Titianus, shrugging his shoulders, but stopping the lictor, who had raised his fasces to cut the ropes.
Thus we here again see how much reason we have in actual observation to guard against the assumption of parallel rays, bundles and fasces of rays, and the like hypothetical notions.
