fasces

Roman functionary who carried fasces when attending a magistrate in public appearances.

下级职员；下士；下等官场；低级职员。

He desired not the purple and the fasces, the insignia of vulgar command.

他并不向往标着庸俗权力高官厚禄。

During this legateship, when he was walking along preceded by the fasces, one of his fellow-townsmen, a man of Lepcis and a plebeian, embraced him as an old comrade.

任职总督副将时，一次他走在法西斯束棒之前，有一位来自列普提斯老乡将他认做老友，与他拥抱。