Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 21:14 |
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Tim May scripsit:
> _fasces_, a bundle of rods with a projecting axe blades, carried by a
> lictor as a symbol of a magistrate's power.
IIRC, only dictators (an appointed official with a 6-month
term limit) carried the axes, as an indication that their orders were
not subject to appeal. Ordinary magistrates had the rods but not the axes.
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