The word "rook" comes from Sanskrit and means "chariot".
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The word "rook" comes from Sanskrit and means "chariot".
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A quadriga is a chariot drawn by four horses.
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Make me a conqueror of all nations; let the famous chariot carry me all the way from the sun to Thebes in triumph: I will consider myself human even when I am hailed everywhere as a god.
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The ancient Greeks believed that the Sun rode across the sky in a chariot drawn by four white horses driven by the god Heleius.
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