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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This collectivism is captured in the word fascism, which comes from the Latin fasces, meaning a bundle of rods with an axe in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coalition of the Willing, to Power « raincoaster] Reference

In ancient Rome, 'fasces' was a bundle of rods tied together and was a symbolic of a magistrate's authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desicritics] Reference

They are, as it were, a kind of fasces which it would be impossible to unbind, and into which no new idea could be inserted without destroying its strength and unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Maria, the fasces is a Roman Latin symbol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Buchanan Falsely Claims That Hispanics ‘Do Not Wish To Assimilate’] Reference

Swords hacked at Bosworth, fasces, guns and spears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

Under what auspices could I, an augur, take those fasces?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

Those fasces were your ancient nobility, whom he has decimated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

“Master,” even if the twelve fasces precede him, call him a slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference

The winged disc at these two places was replaced by the national fasces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

Sometimes, you need to hit them about the head with the fasces for them to catchon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism] Reference

You will have an absolute sceptre; but he has scattered the fasces which indicated it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The decemvir's lictor attacks Valerius and Horatius: the fasces are broken by the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

Against the wall they placed their twelve fasces — a bundle of sticks with an axe in the centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herodias] Reference

For where do I perceive them? against others they have their fasces, and their spears, and their swords.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference

Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 7, 2006] Reference

Pompey held the fasces for the month of September, and sat upon his curule chair at the front of the dais.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

The name derives from the Latin “fasces” which was the Roman symbol of power represented by bound sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Corporations Speak Out Against SCOTUS Ruling, Call On Congress To Approve Public Financing Of Campaigns] Reference

Philippus of course held the fasces for the month of October, so today it was he in the chair, not Sextus Caesar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

Had Lord Lufton appeared as lictor and had Thompson carried the fasces, Miss Anne would have known more about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

He wears the toga praetexta rather than a diadem, and is preceded by lictors bearing the fasces, complete with axes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

The spurt bombs looked like fasces, bundles of tubes around an axis made up of attitude jets and cameras and a computer.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference

And in order to bring me into unpopularity, and even into danger of my life, they spread abroad this report about the fasces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

In filed twenty-four lictors clad in crimson tunics, the axes inserted in their fasces, their faces studiously expressionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Lepidus, who held the fasces for the month of Quinctilis, made his first major mistake: he decided to allow Philippus to have his say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Valerius Publicola had introduced the custom of not having the axes tied up with the fasces when carried before the consuls in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

In the center of a trophy, composed of the enemy's arms and flags, are the Roman fasces, emblem of the strength and of the union of America.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

The fasces are surrounded by a crown of laurel, from which hang three cartoons, each bearing the name of one of the three victories: "NIAGARA" "ERIE" "CHIPPEWA".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

Let the lictor be the dispenser of your clemency, not his own; and let the fasces and axes which they carry before you constitute ensigns rather of rank than of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference

The first consuls had all their privileges and ensigns of authority, only care was taken that the terror might not appear doubled, by both having the fasces at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference