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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. I. Of litters. II. Chariots of the Emperors. III. Chariots for travelling expedition]!)'. IV. Kind of fofl. V. Of the great -ways or roads. VI. Mejfcngers of the galleys. VII. Form of the chariots. CArriages, which multiplied ftill more un- i. der the Emperors, were either clofe or Of litter). open litters, carried by fix or eight men, who were generally flaves. There was room in them only for two, and both were under cover from the weather: the former did not become common till under the Emperors. According to Dion Caffius, the Emperor Claudius was the j)jonQ, firft who ufed them. The ufe of them after-l. 60. wards became general, except for the ladies, who, according to the fame author, in his time were carried only in little open litters. They were more or lefs magnificent, according to the quality, rank, or luxury that prevailed. They were alfo ufed in travelling, as we find in Plutarch's Life of Cicero, who commanded his do- meftics to fet down his litter, when Herennius, who was fent by Mark Antony to kill him, overtook him. We muft not however imagine, that they knew no other carriages, as in the time of the Kings they made ufe of chariots. Tullia, the wife of Tarquin the Proud, commanded the coachman who drove her cha- -Cum lam fexta ccrvicc feratur Hinc atque inde patens. jfuv. Sat. I. v. 64. - When lolling at his cafe, Macenai-like the happy rogue he fees, Born by jix tutor) d Jtcevtij in op: n ww. Drydcn. E 2 riot, riot, to drive over the body of her father, that lay in the ftreet. From the reign of the laft Kings, the Roman ladies ufed a kind of chariot called Carpentum, but only in certain ceremonies: and Livy tells us, that about the three hundred and fixty firft year, under the Military Tribunes, they were granted th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217802499
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217802494
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 186 gr


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