Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . sar that he prohibited the use of them, unless to persons of acertain rank and age, and on certain days. Those who had notsedans of their own, g^ot them to hire. Hence we read in latertimes of corpora et castra lecticariorum, who seem to haveconsisted not only of slaves but of plebeians of the lowest rank,particularly freedmen. Sell^ erant ad exonerandiim ventremaptcB, et vel familiaricze, et public^.^ A kind of close litter carried^ by two mules,* or littlehorses,^ was called bastarna, mentioned only by lat
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . sar that he prohibited the use of them, unless to persons of acertain rank and age, and on certain days. Those who had notsedans of their own, g^ot them to hire. Hence we read in latertimes of corpora et castra lecticariorum, who seem to haveconsisted not only of slaves but of plebeians of the lowest rank,particularly freedmen. Sell^ erant ad exonerandiim ventremaptcB, et vel familiaricze, et public^.^ A kind of close litter carried^ by two mules,* or littlehorses,^ was called bastarna, mentioned only by later writers. Two horses yoked to a carriagewere called , bijugi, v. bijuges ;three, trigcE; and four, quadrigae^quadrijugi, v. -ges; frequently putfor the chariot itself, hijuge curri-culum, quadrijugus currus; butcurriculum is oftener put for cur-sus, the race.*^ We also read of achariot drawn by six horses,joined together a-breast,^ for sothe Eomans always yoked theirhorses in their race-chariots.^<evo once drove a chariot at theOlympic games, drawn by tenhorses.^.
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