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A bundle carried by lictors before the highest magistrates, consisting of rods and an axe, with which criminals were scourged and beheaded.
The fasces lictoriae ("bundles of the lictors") symbolised power and authority (imperium) in ancient Rome. ... By republican times, use of the fasces was surrounded with tradition and protocol.
A corps of apparitores (subordinate officials) called lictors each carried fasces before a magistrate, in a number corresponding to his rank. Lictors preceded consuls (and proconsuls), praetors (and propraetors), dictators, curule aediles, quaestors, and the Flamen Dialis during Roman triumphs (public celebrations held in Rome after a military conquest).
Darüber hinaus gibt es existente Adressaten wie Nicola Sacco und Bartolomeo Vanzetti sowie Nelson Mandela.
Am Rande gestreift und/oder namentlich erwähnt werden meines Wissens Bette Davis, Joe di Maggio (s. o.), Robert de Niro und K. H. Rummenige (sammelt wie ich Uhren).