单词 | biga |
释义 | bigan. Chiefly Roman History. A two-horsed chariot. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > chariot > two-horse steed-yoke1582 biga1600 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Biga, a carte drawen with two horses.] 1600 P. Holland in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. sig. Eeeeee.ij (Gloss.) Bigati, were the Roman Denarij, having the stampe of a charriot drawne with two horses, called Biga. 1647 J. Greaves Disc. Romane Foot & Denarius 37 Bigati, that is denarii (so called because the biga was ordinarily stamped upon the reverse of the Denarius). 1719 J. Harris Hist. Kent i. 6/2 The Belgic Essendum was a Currus falcatus, and a Biga, or drawn but by two horses; and that it was used in Fight by the Gauls. 1781 R. P. Jodrell Illustr. Euripides I. 149 A biga, and not a quadriga, drawn by two, and not by four horses. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. xv. 208 What may be your business with a post-chaise?—Is this splendid equipage—this biga, as I may call it—to serve for an introduction to a quadriga or a curriculum? 1877 Times 17 Feb. 4/5 A personage standing in a biga driven by an auriga and followed by two swordsmen. 1971 Ashmolean Mus. Rep. Visitors 1970 18 Purchased..(A) Arimasp driving a biga, attacked by a pair of griffins. 2001 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 91 37 From around the 190s an alternative reverse design of Luna and other deities driving a biga began to appear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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