Crossword-Solution: FASCIS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Romulum post hos prius an quietum Pompili regnum memorem an superbos Tarquini fascis dubito, an Catonis 35 Nobile letum.

She too fell, and in her place stood a _fascis_ of eighty-three spears, symbolising the unity of the eighty-three departments of France.

The root is undoubtedly _fascis_, a bundle, or anything tied up; also, the fillet with which it is bound."] * * * * * Replies.

This wooden lantern had eight openings, traversed, as that heraldic piece which they call the _fascis_ traverses the field of blazonry, by a kind of wooden wheel, which was divided in the middle, in order to admit in the holes cut in it for that purpose the head and hands of such sentenced person or persons as were exposed at one or more of these eight openings.

Sisyphus in uita quoque nobis ante oculos est qui petere a populo fascis saeuasque securis imbibit et semper uictus tristisque recedit.