bundle of rods

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FASCIS: FASCES (PL)

сборка топливных элементов ( ядерного энергетического реактора); см. тж. bundle of pins

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grex, grĕgis, m. ( fem., Lucil. ap. Charis. p. 72 P.; Lucr. 2, 662; Inscr. ap. Maff. Mus. Veron. 127, 4) [Sanscr. root jar-, come together; Gr. ageirô, agora], a flock, herd, drove, swarm (cf.: armentum, jumentum, pecus).

Lit., of animals:

pecudes dispulsae sui generis sequuntur greges,

Cic. Att. 7, 7, 7; cf.:

greges armentorum reliquique pecoris,

id. Phil. 3, 12, 31:

nobilissimarum equarum,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 7, § 20:

asinorum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 2:

lanigeri,

Verg. G. 3, 287:

vir gregis ipse caper,

id. E. 7, 7; cf.:

dux gregis,

i. e. a bull, Ov. A. A. 1, 326:

elephantorum,

Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 5:

porcorum,

Juv. 2, 80:

pavonum,

Varr. R. R. 3, 6, 2:

anserum,

id. ib. 3, 10, 1:

anatum,

id. ib. 3, 11, 1:

avium,

Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 19.—Opp. to armenta, of small cattle:

non ego sum pastor, non hic armenta gregesve,

Ov. M. 1, 513; 4, 635; Tib. 1, 5, 28.—Prov.:

grex totus in agris Unius scabie cadit,

Juv. 2, 79. —

Transf.

Of a number of persons, in a good or bad sense, a company, society, troop, band, crowd.

In gen.:

in hunc igitur gregem P. Sullam ex his honestissimorum hominum gregibus reicietis?

Cic. Sull. 28, 77:

amicorum,

id. Att. 1, 18, 1; cf.:

scribe tui gregis hunc,

i. e. receive him into the number of your friends, Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 13:

philosophorum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42:

ille virorum (of the Fabians),

Sil. 7, 58:

Cethegus libertos suos orabat, uti grege facto cum telis ad se irrumperent,

i. e. in a body, Sall. C. 50, 2; id. J. 58, 3:

quos respexit rex grege facto venientes,

Liv. 8, 24, 13:

ne servi quidem uno grege profugiunt dominos,

i. e. all together, Curt. 10, 2, 12:

ego forsitan propter multitudinem patronorum in grege annumerer,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 89:

Epicuri de grege porcus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 16:

grex contaminatus turpium virorum,

id. C. 1, 37, 9:

venalium,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 67:

indocilis,

Hor. Epod. 16, 37:

cum populum gregibus comitum premit spoliator,

Juv. 1, 46.—

In partic., of players or charioteers, a company, troop, band: si voltis adplaudere hunc gregem et fabulam, Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 33; id. Cas. prol. 22; Ter. Heaut. prol. 45; id. Phorm. prol. 32; Petr. 80; Inscr. Grut. 1024, 5; Inscr. ap. Marin. Frat. Arv. p. 257.—

Of things (very rare):

virgarum,

a bundle of rods, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 99.

lictor (pronounced līctor, Gell. 12, 3, 4), ōris, m. [1. ligo; cf. Gell. 12, 3, 1 sqq.], a lictor, i. e. an attendant granted to a magistrate, as a sign of official dignity. The Romans adopted this custom from the Etrurians:

Romulus cum cetero habitu se augustiorem tum maxime lictoribus duodecim sumptis (a finitima Etruria) fecit,

Liv. 1, 8. The lictors bore a bundle of rods, from which an axe projected. Their duty was to walk before the magistrate in a line, one after the other; to call out to the people to make way (submovere turbam);

and to remind them of paying their respects to him (animadvertere, v. h. v.). The foremost one was called primus lictor: apud quem primus quievit lictor,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 21;

the last and nearest to the consul, proximus lictor,

Liv. 24, 44 fin. The lictors had also to execute sentences of judgment, to bind criminals to a stake, to scourge them, and to behead them, Liv. 1, 26; 8, 7; 38;

26, 16.—It was necessary that lictors should be freeborn: not till the time of Tacitus were freedmen also appointed to the office. They were united into a company, and formed the decuriae apparitorum (public servants). In Rome they wore the toga, in the field the sagum, in triumphal processions a purple mantle and fasces wreathed with laurel: togulae lictoribus ad portam praesto fuerunt, quibus illi acceptis, sagula rejecerunt et catervam imperatori suo novam praebuerunt,

Cic. Pis. 23, 55. Only those magistrates who had potestatem cum imperio had lictors. In the earliest times the king had twelve; immediately after the expulsion of the kings, each of the two consuls had twelve;

but it was soon decreed that the consuls should be preceded for a month alternately by twelve lictors,

Liv. 2, 1;

a regulation which appears to have been afterwards, although not always, observed,

Liv. 22, 41;

Cæsar was the first who restored the old custom,

Suet. Caes. 20.—The decemvirs had, in their first year of office, twelve lictors each one day alternately, Liv. 3, 33;

in their second year each had twelve lictors to himself,

id. 3, 36.—

The military tribunes with consular power had also twelve lictors,

Liv. 4, 7;

and likewise the interrex,

id. 1, 17.—The dictator had twenty-four, Dio, 54, 1; Polyb. 3, 87; Plut. Fab. 4;

the magister equitum only six, Dio, 42, 27. The praetor urbanus had, in the earlier times, two lictors,

Censor. de Die Natal. 24: at enim unum a praetura tua, Epidice, abest. Ep. Quidnam? Th. Scies. Lictores duo, duo viminei fasces virgarum, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 26; in the provinces he had six;

but in the later times the praetor had in the city, as well as in the province, six lictors, Polyb. 3, 40: cum praetor lictorem impellat et ire praecipitem jubeat,

Juv. 3, 128. The quaestor had lictors only in the province, when he, in consequence of the praetor's absence or death, performed the functions of propraetor, Sall. C. 19; Cic. Planc. 41, 98. Moreover, the flamen dialis, the vestals, and the magistri vicorum had lictors;

these, however, appear to have had no fasces, which was also the case with the thirty lictores curiati (who summoned the curiae to vote),

Cic. Agr. 2, 12, 81; Gell. 15, 27, 2; Inscr. Grut. 33, 4; 630, 9.—

Transf.:

lictorem feminae in publico unionem esse,

a lady's mark of distinction, Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 114.

ῥάβδ-ωμα, ατος, τό,

A rod or bundle of rods, Hsch. s.v. σκυτάλια.

σφραγίζω 1 aor. ἐσφράγισα. Mid.: fut. 2 sg. σφραγιῇ Jer 39:44; 1 aor. ἐσφραγισάμην. Pass.: 1 aor. ἐσφραγίσθην; pf. ptc. ἐσφραγισμένος (s. next entry; Aeschyl. et al.; ins, pap, LXX, TestSol; TestJob 5:2; ParJer 3:10; ApcMos 42; Philo, Joseph.; Mel., P. 15, 97 al.)

① to provide with a seal as a security measure, seal w. acc. of the obj. that is to be secured or fastened by the seal: of a stone, to prevent its being moved fr. position (Da 6:18=Jos., Ant. 10, 258) Mt 27:66 (but s. μετά A3b). Likew. GPt 9:34, where the words μνημεῖον ἐσφραγισμένον refer back to the sealing of the stone used to close the tomb (8:32f); cp. ApcMos 42 ὁ θεὸς … ἐσφράγισε τὸ μνημεῖον. In the case of a closed building, so that it cannot be opened (Bel 11; 14) τὰς κλεῖδας 1 Cl 43:3. A bundle of rods, that were not to be disturbed 43:2. Abs. ἐσφράγισεν ἐπάνω αὐτοῦ he sealed (the closed mouth of the abyss) over him Rv 20:3.

② to close someth. up tight, seal up τὶ someth. in order to keep it secret (Solon in Stob., Flor. III p. 114, 8 H. τοὺς λόγους σιγῇ; Cleopatra 73 μυστήριον ἐσφραγισμένον; PTebt 413, 6; Job 14:17; 24:16; Da 9:24 Theod.; Da 12:9 LXX) Rv 10:4; 22:10.

③ to mark with a seal as a means of identification, mark, seal (Eur., Iph. T. 1372; Mel., P. 16, 104 al.; in pap, of all kinds of animals), so that the mark denoting ownership also carries w. it the protection of the owner (on the apotropaic aspect cp. TestSol 14:2): σφραγίσωμεν τοὺς δούλους τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπὶ τῶν μετώπων αὐτῶν Rv 7:3 (marking w. a seal on the forehead in the cult of Mithra: Tertullian, Praescr. Haer. 40). Corresp. ἐσφραγισμένοι vs. 4ab, 5, 8 (on the concept of sealing eschatologically cp. Ezk 9:4ff; Is 44:5; PsSol 15:6, 9; 4 Esdr 6:5f; 8:51ff. S. also LBrun, Übriggebliebene u. Märtyrer in Apk: StKr 102, 1930, 215–31). This forms a basis for understanding the imagery which speaks of those who enter the Christian community as being sealed with or by the Holy Spirit Eph 1:13; cp. 4:30. Sim. θεός, ὁ σφραγισάμενος ἡμᾶς καὶ δοὺς τὸν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦ πνεύματος ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν 2 Cor 1:22; but here the context contributes an additional component in the sense of ‘endue with power from heaven’, as plainly in J 6:27 (cp. σφραγίς 4a); but EDinkler, OCullmann Festschr. ’62, 183–88 associates 2 Cor 1:22 w. baptism; s. σφραγίς 4b.

④ to certify that someth. is so, attest, certify, acknowledge, fig. (as a seal does on a document: pap; Jer 39:10f; Esth 8:8, 10.—Anth. Pal. 9, 236 ἐσφράγισαν ὅρκοι) w. ὅτι foll. J 3:33.

⑤ to seal someth. for delivery, seal σφραγισάμενος αὐτοῖς τὸν καρπὸν τοῦτον Ro 15:28 is perh. to be understood fr. the practice of sealing sacks of grain (Dssm., NB 65f [BS 238f]). But some have thought that the imagery is rather hard to maintain, since the ‘fruit’ must not only be sealed, but also forwarded to Jerusalem and delivered there. In any case the sense of the expr. is easier to understand in some such wording as this: when I have placed the sum that was collected safely (sealed) in their hands (s. LRadermacher, ZNW 32, ’33, 87–89; HBartsch, ZNW 63, ’72, 95–107). On the debate s. New Docs 2, 191, w. a late pap in further support of Dssm.’s view.—Straub 29f. DELG s.v. σφραγίς. M-M. TW.

1. bundle of (wooden) rods

2. bundle of birch rods

fasces

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.

• cluster of fuel rods

• fuel bundle