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fascis, is, m. [cf. phakelos, fascia, but v fido], a bundle of wood, twigs, straw, reeds, etc.

A fagot, fascine; a packet, parcel.

In gen. (rare):

fasces stramentorum ac virgultorum,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 15, 6:

lignorum,

Tac. A. 13, 35:

magno comites in fasce libelli,

Juv. 7, 107:

tot crimina, tot reos uno velut fasce complecti,

Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 9.— Trop., of a crowd of people, Vulg. Isa. 24, 22.—

A burden, load:

Romanus in armis Injusto sub fasce viam cum carpit,

i. e. soldiers' baggage, Verg. G. 3, 347; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 26 Spald.:

(apes) saepe ultro animam sub fasce dedēre,

under the burden, Verg. G. 4, 204:

ego hoc te fasce levabo,

id. E. 9, 65:

venales humero fasces portare,

id. M. 80.—

In partic., in plur. fasces, a bundle carried before the highest magistrates, and consisting of rods and an axe, with which [p. 727] criminals were scourged and beheaded.

Prop.:

lictores duo, duo viminei fasces virgarum,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 26:

ut sibi (Tullo Hostilio) duodecim lictores cum fascibus anteire liceret, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 2, 17:

anteibant lictores cum fascibus duobus,

id. Agr. 2, 34, 93:

fasces praetoribus praeferuntur,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 22:

Publicola statim secures de fascibus demi jussit,

id. Rep. 2, 31: tum demissi populo fasces, lowered (as a mark of respect) before the people, id. ib. 1, 40, 62; cf.:

P. Valerius fasces primus demitti jussit,

id. ib. 2, 31;

for which: (P. Valerius) summissis fascibus in contionem escendit,

Liv. 2, 7, 7; cf.

under B.: paulo ante dimissi fasces,

surrendered, Plin. Pan. 61, 7:

praecedebant incompta signa, versi fasces, at the funeral of Germanicus,

Tac. A. 3, 2 init.:

neque in litteris, neque in fascibus insignia laureae praetulit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 71, 3; cf.:

visus C. Marius cum fascibus laureatis,

Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59; so,

laureati,

id. Att. 8, 3, 5:

imperatorii,

Tac. A. 13, 9.—

Meton., a high office, esp. the consulship ( poet.):

qui petere a populo fasces saevasque secures Imbibit,

Lucr. 3, 1009:

illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum Flexit,

Verg. G. 2, 495:

ut si Detulerit fasces indigno, detrahet idem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 34; id. S. 1, 6, 97:

et titulis et fascibus olim Major habebatur donandi gloria,

Juv. 5, 110; Sil. 11, 152.—Of royalty:

diadema Quirini Et fasces meruit,

Juv. 8, 260.—

Trop., to give place, to acknowledge one's inferiority:

cum tibi aetas nostra jam cederet fascesque summitteret,

Cic. Brut. 6, 22.

fĕrĭo, īre (archaic FERINVNT for feriunt; acc. to Fest. s. v. nequinunt, p. 162, 24 Müll.; part. fut. feriturus, Serv. Verg. A. 7, 498. The perf. forms are supplied by percutio, v. Varr. L. L. 9, 55, § 98 Müll.), 4, v. a. [perh. Sanscr. dhūr-, injure, destroy; Lat. ferus, ferox; Gr. thêr; Aeol. phêr; cf. Gr. thourios, impetuous, thorein, to leap; and Lat. furere, furia, etc.], to strike, smite, beat, knock, cut, thrust, hit (class.; syn.: icio, percutio, verbero, vapulo, pulso, tundo, pavio).

Lit.

In gen.:

fores,

to knock, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 63; cf.

parietem,

Cic. Cael. 24, 59:

murum arietibus,

to batter, shake, Sall. J. 76, 6:

pugiles adversarium,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23 fin.: jacere telum, voluntatis est;

ferire quem nolueris, fortunae,

to strike, id. Top. 17, 64:

partem corporis sibi,

Lucr. 2, 441:

frontem,

Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1:

femur,

Quint. 11, 3, 123:

pectora solito plangore,

Ov. M. 4, 554; cf.:

calce feritur aselli,

id. F. 3, 755: uvas pede (rusticus), to stamp or tread, Tib. 2, 5, 85:

feriri a serpente,

to be stung, Plin. 29, 4, 22, § 71; cf. Ov. Ib. 481:

cetera (venenata animalia) singulos feriunt,

id. ib. 23:

tabulam malleo,

Cels. 6, 7 fin.: stricto ferit retinacula ferro, cuts to pieces (shortly before:

incidere funes),

Verg. A. 4, 580: certatim socii feriunt mare et aequora verrunt, strike, lash (in rowing), id. ib. 3, 290: ut frontem ferias, that you may beat your brow, i. e. be provoked, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1.— Poet.:

sublimi feriam sidera vertice,

hit, touch, Hor. C. 1, 1, 36; cf. in the foll. 2.— Absol.:

pugno ferire vel calce,

Quint. 2, 8, 13; cf. Hor. S. 2, 7, 99:

occursare capro, cornu ferit ille, caveto,

pushes, butts, Verg. E. 9, 25.—

Of inanim. and abstr. subjects:

principio omnibus a rebus, quascumque videmus, Perpetuo fluere ac mitti spargique necesse est Corpora, quae feriant oculos visumque lacessant,

strike, touch, Lucr. 6, 923:

oculos (corpora, simulacra),

id. 4, 217; 257:

oculorum acies (res),

id. 4, 691:

speciem colore (res),

id. 4, 243; cf.:

his spectris etiam si oculi possent feriri, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 2:

feriuntque summos fulmina montes,

Hor. C. 2, 10, 11:

nec semper feriet, quodcumque minabitur, arous,

id. A. P. 350; cf.:

si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinae,

id. C. 3, 3, 8:

nec levius tabulae laterum feriuntur ab undis, Quam, etc.,

Ov. Tr. 2, 47.— Poet.: ferientia terram corpora, smiting (in falling), Luc. 4, 786:

sole fere radiis foriente cacumina primis,

hitting, touching, Ov. M. 7, 804:

palla imos ferit alba pedes,

touches, reaches to, Val. Fl. 1, 385:

ferit aethera clamor,

Verg. A. 5, 140:

feriat dum maesta remotas Fama procul terras,

extends to, Luc. 5, 774.—

In partic.

To kill by striking, to give a deathblow, to slay, kill: hostem, Enn. ap. Cic. Balb. 22, 51 (Ann. v. 284 ed. Vahl.); Sall. C. 7, 6; 60, 4; id. J. 85, 33; cf.:

aliquem securi feriri,

to be beheaded, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 75:

aliquem telo trabali,

Verg. A. 12, 295:

retiarium (mirmillo),

Quint. 6, 3, 61:

te (maritum),

Hor. C. 3, 11, 43:

leonem atque alias feras primus aut in primis ferire,

Sall. J. 6, 1:

aprum,

Ov. M. 3, 715.—

Of the animals for sacrifice, to kill, slaughter; and hence, to offer, sacrifice:

nos humilem feriemus agnam,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 32:

vaccam Proserpinae,

Verg. A. 6, 251; cf. the form of oath in making a compact (when a swine was sacrificed): SI PRIOR DEFEXIT [p. 737] (populus Romanus) PVBLICO CONSILIO DOLO MALO, TV ILLO DIE IVPPITER, POPVLVM ROMANVM SIC FERITO, VT EGO HVNC PORCVM HIC HODIE FERIAM:

TANTOQVE MAGIS FERITO, QVANTO MAGIS POTES POLLESQVE,

Liv. 1, 24, 8:

Quid aut sponsoribus in foedere opus esset aut obsidibus, ubi precatione res transigitur? per quem populum fiat, quo minus legibus dictis stetur, ut eum ita Juppiter feriat, quemadmodum a Fetialibus porcus feriatur,

id. 9, 5, 3. (Cf. also:

Jovis ante aram Stabant et caesā jungebant foedera porcă,

Verg. A. 8, 641).— Hence,

Transf., foedus ferire, to make a compact, covenant, or treaty (in Hebrew in precisely the same manner,): accipe daque fidem, foedusque feri bene firmum, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 33 ed. Vahl.):

is, quicum foedus feriri in Capitolio viderat,

Cic. Rab. Post. 3, 6:

videret ut satis honestum foedus feriretur,

id. Inv. 2, 30, 92:

amorum turpissimorum foedera ferire,

to form illicit connections, id. Cael. 14, 34:

Tarchon jungit opes foedusque ferit,

Verg. A. 10, 154 al. —

Of money, to strike, stamp, coin:

asses sextantario pondere,

Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 44. Thus the designation of a triumvir monetalis is III. VIR. A. A. A. F. F., i. e. Triumvir auro argento aeri flando feriundo, Inscr. Orell. 569.

Trop.

In gen.:

quae faciliora sunt philosophis, quo minus multa patent in eorum vita, quae fortuna feriat,

reaches, affects, Cic. Off. 1, 21, 73:

accidit, ut ictu simili (i. e. morte propinqui) ferirer,

was struck with a similar blow, Quint. 6 praef. §

3: verba palato,

to bring out, utter, speak, Hor. S. 2, 3, 274; cf.:

sonat vox, ut feritur,

Quint. 11, 3, 61:

feriunt animum (sententiae),

id. 12, 10, 48:

ut omnis sensus in fine sermonis feriat aurem,

id. 8, 5, 13; cf. id. 9, 3, 4.— Absol.:

binis aut ternis ferire verbis,

Cic. Or. 67, 226:

videtur Chrysippus medium ferire voluisse,

i. e. to avoid extremes, id. Fat. 17, 39.—

In partic., to cozen, cheat, gull, trick (mostly in vulg. lang.;

not in Cic.): ubi illa pendentem ferit, jam amplius orat,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 19; Ter. Ph. 1, 1, 13:

cum ferit astutos comica moecha Getas,

Prop. 4 (5), 5, 44:

austeros arte ferire viros,

id. 3, 3 (4, 2), 50.—

To punish, inflict punishment: aliquem condemnatione centum librarum auri, Cod. 11, 11, 1.

Pāpĭnĭānus, i, m., a celebrated Roman jurist under Septimius Severus, beheaded at the command of Caracalla, Spart. Sever. 21; Caracall. 4; 8.—Hence,

Pā-pĭnĭānista, ae, m., a follower or admirer of Papinian, Just. in Ep. praef. Dig. 2.

Pāpĭnĭānus, i, m., a celebrated Roman jurist under Septimius Severus, beheaded at the command of Caracalla, Spart. Sever. 21; Caracall. 4; 8.—Hence,

Pā-pĭnĭānista, ae, m., a follower or admirer of Papinian, Just. in Ep. praef. Dig. 2.