. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. H. N. ), or elm tree ( iii. 2. 29.), wattledtogether, and bound roundwith thongs into the formof a fascine. During thereign of the kings, andunder the first years ofthe republic, an axe (secu-ris) was likewise insertedamongst the rods; but afterthe consulate of Publicola,no magistrate, excep
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. H. N. ), or elm tree ( iii. 2. 29.), wattledtogether, and bound roundwith thongs into the formof a fascine. During thereign of the kings, andunder the first years ofthe republic, an axe (secu-ris) was likewise insertedamongst the rods; but afterthe consulate of Publicola,no magistrate, except a dictator ( 18.) was permitted to use thefasces with an axe in the city ofRome (Cic. de Rep. ii. 31. Val. Max. 278 FASCIS. FASELUS. iv. I. 1.); the employment of bothtogether being restricted to the con-suls at the head of their armies ( 9.), and to the quaestors in theirprovinces. (Cic. Plane. 41.) The il-lustration affords an example of thefasces as they appeared with the axeinserted, from a bas-relief of theMattei palace at Rome. 3. Fasces prceferre and lictor walked before the ma-gistrate to whose service he wasattached with a rod (virga) in hisleft hand, and the fasces on hisleft shoulder, as shown by the an-nexed figure, from a bas-relief in. the Museum of Verona. This is ex-pressed by the phrase fasces prce-ferre; but if a magistrate of inferiorrank met a superior, the lictor re-moved the fasces from his shoulder,and lowered them, as a mark of re-spect, till the great man had passed,as our soldiers ground arms in thepresence of great personages. Thisis expressed by the phrase fascessubmittere. 4. Fasces laureati. When a gene-ral had achieved a victory, he hadthe fasces, which were borne beforehim, decorated with laurel leaves (lau-reati, Cic. Div. i. 28. Id. Att. ); and the emperors also added asimilar ornament to their own fascesin compliment to any of their officers
Size: 1408px × 1775px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectclassicaldictionarie
