• n. 束棒（古羅馬表示權(quán)威的象征）

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)fasces, 捆，詞源同basket. 尤指把木棒和斧頭綁在一起的束棒，用做古羅馬執(zhí)政官權(quán)力的象征，木棒象征著鞭笞，斧頭象征著砍頭。

fasces (n.)

1590s, from Latin fasces "bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting" (plural of fascis "bundle" of wood, etc.), from Proto-Italic *faski- "bundle," perhaps from PIE *bhasko- "band, bundle" (cognates: Middle Irish basc "neckband," Welsh baich "load, burden," perhaps also Old English b?st "inner bark of the linden tree"). Carried before a lictor, a superior Roman magistrate, as a symbol of power over life and limb: the sticks symbolized punishment by whipping, the axe-head execution by beheading. Hence in Latin it also meant, figuratively, "high office, supreme power."

1. He desired not the purple and the fasces, the insignia of vulgar command.

他并不向往標(biāo)志著庸俗權(quán)力的高官厚祿.

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