A dictionary of Greek and Roman . Lamprid. Heliog. 4) ;but more rarely by oxen or horses, and sometimesby four horses like a quadriga. For grand occa-sions it was very richly adorned. Agrippinascarriage, as above represented, shows painting orcarving on the panels, and the head is supportedby Caryatides at the four comers. When Caligula instituted games and other so-lemnities in honour of his deceased mother Agrip-pina, her carpentum went in the procession. ( .15.) This practice, so similar to ours ofsending carriages to a funeral, is evidently alludedto in the alto-ri
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . Lamprid. Heliog. 4) ;but more rarely by oxen or horses, and sometimesby four horses like a quadriga. For grand occa-sions it was very richly adorned. Agrippinascarriage, as above represented, shows painting orcarving on the panels, and the head is supportedby Caryatides at the four comers. When Caligula instituted games and other so-lemnities in honour of his deceased mother Agrip-pina, her carpentum went in the procession. ( .15.) This practice, so similar to ours ofsending carriages to a funeral, is evidently alludedto in the alto-rilievo here represented, which ispreserved in the British Museum. It has beentaken from a sarcophagus, and exhibits a closecarpentum drawn by four horses. Mercury, theconductor of ghosts to Hades, appears on the front,and Castor and Pollux with their horses on theside panel. Carpenta, or covered carts, were much used by CARRUCA. CARYATIS, 243 the Britons, the Gauls, the Cimbri, the Allobroges,and other northern nations. (Floras, i. 18, iii. 2,. 3, and 10.) These, together with the carts of themore common form, including baggage-waggons,appear to have been comprehended under the termcarri, or carra, which is the Celtic name with aLatin termination. The Gauls and Helvetiitook a great multitude of them on their militaryexpeditions ; and, when they were encamped, ar-ranged them in close order, so as to form extensivelines of circumvallation. (Caes. Bell. Gall. i. 24,26.) [J. Y.] CARPOU DIKE (nap-rod Sf/crj), a civil actionunder the jurisdiction of the thesmothetae, mightbe instituted against a farmer for default in pay-ment of rent. (Meier, Ait. Proc. p. 531.) It wasalso adopted to enforce a judicial award when theunsuccessful litigant refused to surrender the landto his opponent (Hudtwalcker, p. 144 ; Meier, p. 750), and might be used to determine theright to land (Harpocrat. s. v., and Ovo-ias Ai/ct?),as the judgment would determine whether theplaintiff could claim rent
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