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Bundles of rods with an axe blade protruding from them are called fasces. ^wrong It symbolizes unity and strength
The fasces.
A fasces symbolized power and authority in ancient Rome. It was a bundle of rods tied around an axe, carried by Roman magistrates as a symbol of their authority to mete out punishment. The fasces represented unity in strength, reflecting the idea that individuals are stronger when united together.
fasces; a bundle of sticks featuring an axe, indicating the power over life and death.
One rod can be easily broken, but not an entire bundle. Strength lies in unity.
It was the fasces (a bundle of sticks featuring an axe, indicating the power over life and death.)
He wanted to re-establish the Roman Empire. The name of his movement -- Fascism -- was taken from the Roman fasces carried by magistrates as a mark of their authority. The fasces was a bundle of rods bound around an axe.
It was the fasces (a bundle of sticks featuring an axe, indicating the power over life and death.)
The axes were taken out of the fasces whenever fasces were brought into the city of Rome, as a symbol that the rights of the citizens were superior to the authority of the state. Presumably, then, the absence of the axes symbolizes that Lincoln upheld the rights of citizens over the authority of the state, i.e., the emancipation of slaves.
Fasces
The fasces has a number of meanings. The first is that it represents how while individual rods can be bent, all of the rods together confer a greater strength which is not so easily overcome. This would commonly be seen as "united we stand, divided we fall". The fasces also represents equality in that all of the rods are the same size and equally important. Finally, the fasces was one of the most prominent symbols of the Roman Empire, so the positive virtues of the Romans, such as power, organization, authority, and stability are grafted onto the Revolutionary movement as its virtues as well.
It's definitely not a "smoke pipe". It's called a fasces and is a bundle of rods bound together around an ax with the blade projecting, carried before ancient Roman magistrates as an emblem of authority.