"Rods bound in the form of a bundle, and containing an axe in the middle, the iron of which projected…
"In Rom. antiq., bundles of rods, usually of birch, with an ax bound in with them, the blade projecting,…
"The symbolic fasces borne by these officers were probably of Ertuscan origin. The Tarquins are said…
Lictors were guards of magistrates who carried fasces to show power to execute. Two men, one young,…