How did an ancient symbol acquire a bad name?
By Chelsie Vandaveer November 8, 2004 killerPlants Tendrils: ~~1~~2~~3~~4~~5~~ Suggested Reading—>Click here. Assorted Killer Savings Garden Links—>Click here. In Rome, a fascis was a bundle of elm or birch rods. The bundle bound around a staff with an axe facing outward became the fascis of a magistrate and his lictor. The lictor carried the fascis before the magistrate as a symbol of office representing law and the authority to punish crimes—rods for a mere beating, the axe head for death.
