. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. 542 QUADRIFORIS. the solid contents of which wereequal to an amphora. Cato, R. 2. Plaut. Cure. i. 2. 16. Festus,s. v. QUADRIFORIS sc. janua (rerpd-Ovpos). A door, in which each ofthe two valves fold back into twoparts, thus forming altogether fourpieces, upon the same principle asour window-shutters and
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. 542 QUADRIFORIS. the solid contents of which wereequal to an amphora. Cato, R. 2. Plaut. Cure. i. 2. 16. Festus,s. v. QUADRIFORIS sc. janua (rerpd-Ovpos). A door, in which each ofthe two valves fold back into twoparts, thus forming altogether fourpieces, upon the same principle asour window-shutters and folding-doors ; as is exemplified by the illus-tration, representing a cabinet or. armoire, from a Pompeian iv. 6. 5. QUADRFGA (reOpimrov apfia).A team of four horses or other ani-mals ; thence a carriage drawn by fourhorses abreast, and more especiallyapplied to the racing chariots of thecircus (see the following woodcut),or to those employed in public pro-cessions, triumphs, &c. (Cic. &c.) Carriages of this descrip-tion were originally furnished withtwo poles and a long cross-bar oryoke, which stretched across thebacks of all the four animals, in thesame manner as shown by the firstwoodcut s. Biga. But that practicewas early set aside, and then the twocentre horses only were yoked, thetwo outside ones being attached bytraces, in the manner shown by thewoodcut s. Funalis. Isidor. 35. QUADRIGARIUS. A charioteerwho drove a team of four horsesabreast; more especially applied toone who drove a four-horsed car(quadriga) at the races of the circus ;as represented by the annexed cutfrom the device on a terra-cotta QUADRIREMIS
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