A dictionary of Greek and Roman . nd the currus thus constructed was com-monly drawn by two horses, which were attachedto it by their necks, and therefore called 8i£vyesliriroi (Horn. II. v. 195, x. 473), pis ( i. 2. § 1), gemini jugales (Virg. Aen. ), equi bijuges (Georg. iii. 91). If a thirdhorse was added, as was not unfrequently the case,it was fastened by traces. It may have been in-tended to take the place of either of the yoke horses( fyyioi ItttvoC), which might happen to be horse so attached was called irap^opos. Ginz-I rot ( Wdgen und Fahrwe
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . nd the currus thus constructed was com-monly drawn by two horses, which were attachedto it by their necks, and therefore called 8i£vyesliriroi (Horn. II. v. 195, x. 473), pis ( i. 2. § 1), gemini jugales (Virg. Aen. ), equi bijuges (Georg. iii. 91). If a thirdhorse was added, as was not unfrequently the case,it was fastened by traces. It may have been in-tended to take the place of either of the yoke horses( fyyioi ItttvoC), which might happen to be horse so attached was called irap^opos. Ginz-I rot ( Wdgen und Fahrwerke, vol. i. p. 342) has pub - CURRUS. CURRUS. 379 lished two drawings of chariots with three horses,from Etruscan vases in the collection at lititos Trapriopos is placed on the right of thetwo yoke horses. (See woodcut.) We also observetraces passing between the two &vrvyes, and pro-ceeding from the front of the chariot on each sideof the middle horse. These probably assisted inattaching the third, or extra The Latin name for a chariot and pair wasbigae. When a third horse was added, it was called triga ; and by the same analogy a chariotand four was called quadrigae ; in Greek- rerpao-pia or reOpiinros. The horses were commonly harnessed in aquadriga after the manner already represented, thetwo strongest horses being placed under the yoke,and the two others fastened on each side by meansof ropes. This is implied in the use of the epi-thets (Tzipcuos or aeipacpopos, and funalis or /una-rms, for a horse so attached. (Isid. Orig. ) The two exterior horses were further dis-tinguished from one another as the right and the lefttrace-horse. In the splendid triumph of Augustusafter the battle of Actium, the trace-horses of his carwere ridden by two of his young relations. Tibe-rius rode, as Suetonius relates (Tib. 6.) sinisteriorefunali equo, and Marcellus dexteriore funali the works of ancient art, especially fictile vases,abound in representati
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