A dictionary of Greek and Roman . The next two woodcuts, which are taken fromthe consular coins of C. Norbanus, contain in ad-dition to the fasces—the one a spica and caduceus,and the other a spica, caduceus, and The fasces appear to have been usually made ofbirch (betulla, xvi. 30), but sometimesalso of the twigs of the elm. (Plaut. Asin. iii. , ii. 3. 74.) They are said to have been de-rived from Vetulonia, a city of Etruria. (Sil. 485 ; compare Liv. i. 8.) Twelve were carriedbefore each of the kings by twelve lictors ; andon the expulsion of th
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . The next two woodcuts, which are taken fromthe consular coins of C. Norbanus, contain in ad-dition to the fasces—the one a spica and caduceus,and the other a spica, caduceus, and The fasces appear to have been usually made ofbirch (betulla, xvi. 30), but sometimesalso of the twigs of the elm. (Plaut. Asin. iii. , ii. 3. 74.) They are said to have been de-rived from Vetulonia, a city of Etruria. (Sil. 485 ; compare Liv. i. 8.) Twelve were carriedbefore each of the kings by twelve lictors ; andon the expulsion of the Tarquins, one of the con-suls was preceded by twelve lictors with the fascesand secures, and the other by the same numberof lictors with the fasces only, or, according tosome accounts, with crowns round them. ( 2.) But P. Valerius Publicola, who gave tothe people the right of provocatio, ordained that FASCIA. FASTI. 521 the secures should be removed from the fasces, andallowed only one of the consuls to be preceded bythe lictors while they were at Rome. (Cic. deRep. ii. 31 ; Valer. Max. iv. ]. § 1.) The otherconsul was attended only by a single accensus[Accensus]. When they were out of Rome, andat the head of the a
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