Quadriga

//kwɑˈdɹi.ɡə//

"Quadriga" in a Sentence (3 examples)

A quadriga is a chariot drawn by four horses.

In the Vatican Library is a vase of terra cotta, on whose upper part we see delineated the sun and moon, in a quadriga, which proceeds forward [travels, voyages, fulfils its course] upon a ship. […] Both these deities stand in a quadriga, which indeed is the vehicle proper to the sun, insomuch that the Rhodians every year threw into the sea a quadriga, dedicated to this divinity.

On another denarius we see Victory holding a wreath and driving a quadriga […]

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