A dictionary of Greek and Roman . rtium under the emperors.(Plut. Galb. 20.) It is thought by some writers, from a passagein Plautus (Rud. iii. 6. 19), that the carnifex wasanciently keeper of the prison under the triumviricapitales ; but there does not appear sufficientauthority for this opinion. (Lipsius, Excurs. adTacit. Ann. ii. 32.) CARPENTUM, is one of the earnest kind ofRoman carriages, of which we find mention. ( 34.) It was the carriage in which Roman matronswere allowed to be conveyed in the public festal pro-cessions (Liv. v. 25 ; Isid. Orig. xx. 12) ; and thatth
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . rtium under the emperors.(Plut. Galb. 20.) It is thought by some writers, from a passagein Plautus (Rud. iii. 6. 19), that the carnifex wasanciently keeper of the prison under the triumviricapitales ; but there does not appear sufficientauthority for this opinion. (Lipsius, Excurs. adTacit. Ann. ii. 32.) CARPENTUM, is one of the earnest kind ofRoman carriages, of which we find mention. ( 34.) It was the carriage in which Roman matronswere allowed to be conveyed in the public festal pro-cessions (Liv. v. 25 ; Isid. Orig. xx. 12) ; and thatthis was a considerable privilege is evident fromthe fact, that the use of carriages in the city wasentirely forbidden during the whole of the privilege of riding in a carpentum in the publicfestivals, was sometimes granted as a special pri-vilege to females of the imperial family. (DionCass. lx. 22, 33; Tac. Ann. xii. 42.) The formof this carriage is seen in the following medalstruck in honour of the elder Agrippina after The carpentum was also used by private personsfor journeys ; and it was likewise a kind of statecarriage, richlv adorned and ornamented. (Prop. 23 ; Juv. viii. 147, ix. 132.) This carriage contained seats for two, and some-times for three persons, besides the coachman. ( 34 ; Medals.) It was commonly drawn by a pairof mules (carpentum mulare, 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
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