. 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. 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.
. 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. 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. bas-relief; who had obtained a brilliant success.(Tac. Ann. xiii. 3.) The methodadopted was, upon suchoccasions, either to in-sert a branch of laurelinto the top of the rods,as shown by the left-hand figure in the an-nexed engraving, re-presenting the fascescarried by a lictor inattendance on the Em-peror Vespasian, fromor to fasten a laurel wreath uponthem, as in the right-hand example,from a consular coin. 5. Fasces versi. In mourning, orat the funeral of commanders, thefasces were reversed (versi, Tac. 2.) ; that is, carried with the axedownwards, as our soldiers carrytheir muskets upon similar occasions;and sometimes, as at the funeral ofDrusus, the staves were broken(fracti fasces, Pedo Albin. El. i. 177.). FASELUS ((pd<rr)\os). A lightcraft invented by the Egyptians,supposed to have received its namefrom some resemblance to the pod ofa faselus, or kidney bean. It wasmade of the papyrus, of wicker-work,and sometimes even of baked earth(fictilis, Juv. Sat. xv. 127.), a
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