So, fascism essentially meant the Mussolini movement's adoption of the fasces as the symbol of what became known as the Fascist movement. |
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The fasces of Italian fascism are nicked from the fasces carried by the lictors, symbolising the unity of the Roman people. |
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Independence is represented by the laurel-crowned female figure, who holds the consular fasces in one hand and a torch in the other. |
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The fasces of ancient Roman times were of course the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the great strength of the organized Roman people. |
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Both depict Liberty figures standing with their fasces and bonnets supported on staffs before key locations in Rome, as if claiming them as their own. |
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This was one of the most important towns in western Etruria which gave the city of Rome its signs of power, including the 12 fasces of the Roman lictors. |
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In the centre of our logo is the first rune with 2 fasces next to it. |
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On the right stands the long, architecturally austere, central building, whose only decoration is supplied by the fasces, emblems of the cardinal, in the upper band under the dormer windows. |
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As a gesture of respect and great honor, Pompey lowered his fasces before Posidonius's door. |
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When inside the pomerium, the lictors removed the axes from the fasces to show that a citizen could not be executed without a trial. |
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Each lictor held a fasces, a bundle of rods that contained an axe. |
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