1. Marianne is shown leaning on a fasces , a symbol of authority. 2. The fasces of the body guards were broken and Piso was threatened. 3. The hinges of the screen are ax-topped fasces . 4. The Fasces below the shield represents the republican dignity. 5. Like Fasces . Preceding contribs ) 22 : 53, 10 April 2007 6. He also published his complete articles in " Fasces Exonienses ". 7. On certain special occasions, the fasces might be decorated with a laurel wreath. 8. Each lictor held a fasces , a bundle of rods that contained an axe. 9. Laecanius Bassus held the fasces with Lucius Annius Bassus November-December AD 70. 10. So it does, with reliefs of toiling workers above columns resembling gigantic Roman fasces .