fasces

英 ['fæsiːz]
  • n. 束棒(古罗马表示权威的象征)
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fasces 束棒

来自拉丁语fasces, 捆,词源同basket. 尤指把木棒和斧头绑在一起的束棒,用做古罗马执政官权力的象征,木棒象征着鞭笞,斧头象征着砍头。

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 bæst "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.
他并不向往标志着庸俗权力的高官厚禄.

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