fascis — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

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 117 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fascis — de Vaan

fascis 'bundle, faggot; (symbol of) power' [m. i\ (PL+) Derivatives: fascia 'ribbon, band' (Varro+), fasciculus 'bundle, bunch' (Cato+), — [de Vaan, s.v. fascis, p. 217]

2. fascis — Lewis & Short

fascis, is, m.cf. fa/kelos, fascia, but v fido,

I a bundle of wood, twigs, straw, reeds, etc.

I A fagot, fascine; a packet, parcel.

A In gen. (rare): fasces stramentorum ac virgultorum, Hirt. B. G. 8, 15, 6: lignorum, Tac. A. 13, 35: magno comites in fasce libelli, Juv. 7, 107: tot crimina, tot reos uno velut fasce complecti, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 9.—Trop., of a crowd of people, Vulg. Isa. 24, 22.—

B A burden, load: Romanus in armis Injusto sub fasce viam cum carpit, i. e. soldiers' baggage, Verg. G. 3, 347; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 26 Spald.: (apes) saepe ultro animam sub fasce dedēre, under the burden, Verg. G. 4, 204: ego hoc te fasce levabo, id. E. 9, 65: venales humero fasces portare, id. M. 80.—

II In partic., in plur. fasces, a bundle carried before the highest magistrates, and consisting of rods and an axe, with which criminals were scourged and beheaded.

A Prop.: lictores duo, duo viminei fasces virgarum, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 26: ut sibi (Tullo Hostilio) duodecim lictores cum fascibus anteire liceret, etc., Cic. Rep. 2, 17: anteibant lictores cum fascibus duobus, id. Agr. 2, 34, 93: fasces praetoribus praeferuntur, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 22: Publicola statim secures de fascibus demi jussit, id. Rep. 2, 31: tum demissi populo fasces, lowered (as a mark of respect) before the people, id. ib. 1, 40, 62; cf.: P. Valerius fasces primus demitti jussit, id. ib. 2, 31; for which: (P. Valerius) summissis fascibus in contionem escendit, Liv. 2, 7, 7; cf. under B.: paulo ante dimissi fasces, surrendered, Plin. Pan. 61, 7: praecedebant incompta signa, versi fasces, at the funeral of Germanicus, Tac. A. 3, 2 init.: neque in litteris, neque in fascibus insignia laureae praetulit, Caes. B. C. 3, 71, 3; cf.: visus C. Marius cum fascibus laureatis, Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59; so, laureati, id. Att. 8, 3, 5: imperatorii, Tac. A. 13, 9.—

2 Meton., a high office, esp. the consulship (poet.): qui petere a populo fasces saevasque secures Imbibit, Lucr. 3, 1009: illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum Flexit, Verg. G. 2, 495: ut si Detulerit fasces indigno, detrahet idem, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 34; id. S. 1, 6, 97: et titulis et fascibus olim Major habebatur donandi gloria, Juv. 5, 110; Sil. 11, 152.—Of royalty: diadema Quirini Et fasces meruit, Juv. 8, 260.—*

B Trop., to give place, to acknowledge one's inferiority: cum tibi aetas nostra jam cederet fascesque summitteret, Cic. Brut. 6, 22.

In the wild

fascibus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.3.9.3
fasces Statius, Silvae 3.3.115
fasces Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.12.13
fascibus Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 41.15
fasce Vergil, Georgicon 3.347
fascesque Suetonius, Divus Julius 71.1

6 of 351 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. fascis (scan p. 217; entry #530).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. fascis (scan p. 242; entry #3747).

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