How To Use Fasces In A Sentence

  • It also attacks Mussolini, the clown in the pulpit on the right who is shown dangling a bundle of fasces from a sickle as he delivers a political tirade. Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals
  • He raised a withered fasces of fingers and pointed one at me. VITALS
  • The fasces of Italian fascism are nicked from the fasces carried by the lictors, symbolising the unity of the Roman people.
  • That stigmatism was apparently short lived, unlike that of the swastika of Nazi Germany, and the fasces appears today on several symbols of U.S. government, including the seal of the U.S. Winged Liberty (“Mercury”) Dime, 1916-1945 : Coin Guide
  • So, fascism essentially meant the Mussolini movement's adoption of the fasces as the symbol of what became known as the Fascist movement.
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  • The very word ‘Fascism’ is an allusion to the tied-up bundle of rods (the fasces) that the lictors of ancient Rome bore as a visible symbol of the united strength of the Roman people.
  • Panaque Siluanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum flexit et infidos agitans discordia fratres, aut coniurato descendens Dacus ab Histro, 40 non res Romanae perituraque regna; neque ille aut doluit miserans inopem aut inuidit habenti. quos rami fructus, quos ipsa uolentia rura sponte tulere sua, carpsit, nec ferrea iura insanumque forum aut populi tabularia uidit. 'God made the country but man made the town'
  • The fasces of ancient Roman times were of course the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the great strength of the organized Roman people.
  • The fasces were the insignia of a Roman praetor, consul, general, or governor. The Spartacus War
  • Like the fasces carried by Roman lictors, weaving, in which separate strands are plaited together to form a new and far more robust entity, becomes the embodiment of communal strength and unity of purpose.
  • Sable, on a fesse invected or, between three cats a mountain passant guardant argent, a fasces in bend, surmounting a sword in bend sinister proper, between two crescents gules, in the centre chief point a rose of the third. A History of Caroline County, Virginia
  • On March 23, 1919, Mussolini and other war veterans founded in Milan a revolutionary, nationalistic group called the Fasci di Combattimento, named for the ancient Roman symbol of power, the fasces.
  • That is, they referred to the Roman fasces, which had been the symbol of the Roman legions, marching out to war, and called this ‘Fascism’; but it was actually Synarchism from France.
  • Its emblem, therefore, is the lictorian _fasces_, symbol of unity, of force and of justice. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado
  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, the words separated by centered dots, is concentric to the flat rim around slightly more than the top half of the coin; ONE DIME, the words separated by the bottom of the fasces and the olive branch, completes the circle at the bottom. Winged Liberty (“Mercury”) Dime, 1916-1945 : Coin Guide
  • Both depict Liberty figures standing with their fasces and bonnets supported on staffs before key locations in Rome, as if claiming them as their own.
  • The fasces was a sacred symbol, like a royal scepter or a bishops crook. The Spartacus War
  • The symbol of the Etruscan king's right to execute his subjects was a bundle of rods and an axe: the fasces (from which Mussolini created the Fascisti in the 20th century).
  • That stigmatism was apparently short lived, unlike that of the swastika of Nazi Germany, and the fasces appears today on several symbols of U.S. government, including the seal of the U.S. Senate and on the frieze of the facade of the U.S. Winged Liberty (“Mercury”) Dime, 1916-1945 : Coin Guide
  • To the right of Symphorien, who is led to his death by a pair of fasces-wielding lictors, a youth stoops to gather stones, which he will hurl at the saint's mother.
  • After 1792 the trappings of Roman republicanism became fashionable, with fasces and axes; and stern ancient patriots like Brutus, Scaevola, and Cato, familiar to all men of education, were much invoked.

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