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A fasces (; Latin: [ˈfaskeːs]; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning ‘bundle’; Italian: fascio littorio) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, often, but not always, including an axe (occasionally two axes) 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 (Ancient Greek: λάβρυς, romanized: lábrys; Latin: bipennis), the double…

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I was referencing this, from your link:

    By the Renaissance, there emerged a conflation of the fasces with a Greek fable first recorded by Babrius in the second century AD, which depicted how individual sticks can be easily broken but a bundle could not. [11] This story is common across Eurasian culture and by the thirteenth century AD was recorded in the Secret History of the Mongols.[12] While there is no historical connection between the original fasces and this fable,[13] by the sixteenth century AD, fasces were “inextricably linked” with interpretations of the fable as one expressing unity and harmony.[12]
    This explains my comment.