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Symbolism > facses

facses

The Roman fasces, or lictors' rods is a bundle of polished rods bound around a battle-axe. A lictor was a civil officer who attended and carried the fasces before a Roman consul, both to indicate his status as an important person and to clear a way through the crowds. Thus, it indicated a superior magistrate, but it also symbolized the power over life and death that he might have, for example, as a judge. In heraldry, this symbol of magisterial office was often included in grants of arms to Mayors and Lord Mayors.

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