A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

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Title: A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.
Author: Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Nicholson ... Tho. Newborough ... and John Bulford ...,; 1700.
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Subject terms: Classical dictionaries.; Rome -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.; Greece -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
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FASCES,

These Fasces were Axes fast∣ned to a long Staff, tied together with a bundle of Rods, which the Officers called Lictors, carried before the great Roman Ma∣gistrates,

Romulus was the first who instituted Fasces, to inspire a greater respect and fear in the mind of the People, and to punish Male∣factors. J. Lictor expedi virgas.

When the Magistrates, who by right had these Axes carried before them, had a mind to shew some deference for the People, or some person of a singular merit, they sent back the Lictors, or bid them to lower the Fasces before them, which was called sub∣mittere Fasces. For that same reason the Con∣sul Publicola, a great Politician, being ready to make a Speech to the Roman People, sent back his Lictors; Fasces, says Livy, Majestati populi Romani submisit. And Pompey the Great, coming into the House of Possidonius the Phi∣losopher, when he was at the Door, sent back the Lictors in honour of Possidonius's Learning.