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Powerful Symbol of Unity: The Fasces

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Raia Images Index IX

In Rome fasces represented the power of certain magistrates who could order the beating of a criminal. The judges assistants, called licteurs, did the work with sticks. These fasces became the symbol of union and accord.

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