The corpus record — Latin

fascis

bundle, faggot; (symbol of) power

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Precationes 3 · 64.79/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 25.84/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 2 · 19.12/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 3 · 13.95/10k
In Eutropium 9 · 12.53/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 9 · 11.87/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 2 · 11.75/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 4 · 10.09/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 2 · 6.1/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 4.81/10k

Densest 12 of 104 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. fascis — de Vaan

bundle, faggot; (symbol of) power

2. fascis — Lewis & Short

a bundle

Attestations

fascem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.5
fasces Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.10.8
fascem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.16.11
fascibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.13.15
fasces Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 3.63
fascis Appendix Vergiliana, Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 59

6 of 322 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 217; entry #530 Review: Under source audit
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 242; entry #3747 Review: Under source audit

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.