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n. - Bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding.

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  • Fascist Italy used a symbol called the fasces (the word 'fascist' comes from this), which is a bunch of sticks tied together with an axe.
  • But her Roman opposite number, Justitia, is blindfolded, carrying a bundle of rods around an ax called fasces in one hand and a flame in the other.
  • This collectivism is captured in the word fascism, which comes from the Latin fasces, meaning a bundle of rods with an axe in it.
  • In ancient Rome, 'fasces' was a bundle of rods tied together and was a symbolic of a magistrate's authority.
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