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   ‖Fasces , n. pl. [L., pl. of fascis bundle; cf. fascia a band, and Gr. φάκελος a bundle.], (Rom. Antiq.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.
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